#ballad

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#does #eddie #fisher #i #like

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ↗

— William Bell

#around #ballads #cole #enough #frank

I wanted to thank Trent, but all I could do was give him a faint smile before I lost consciousness. Everything had worked flawlessly. I had planned the perfect murder - my own. ↗

— Terry Lovett

#death #heinous #murder-ballads-and-whiskey #death

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#poetry #dreams

A lot of ballads are about the mistakes we inevitably make while trying to figure out how to live our lives. ↗

— Stephanie Kuehnert

#life #life

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again. ↗

— Jerry Cantrell

#back #ballads #big #big hair #come

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me. ↗