#ballad

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. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#felt #first #gospel #had #heard

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. ↗

— John Fogerty

#beautiful #elegant #harmony #i #i think

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#gave #goosebumps #halen #heart #i

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#ballad #go #once #while

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#did #down #happened #heaven #i

Now ballads, I can mess around and get up on somebody on a ballad. People ain't seen it yet, but I can mess around and get up in there. I've had Ruben Studdard up in my house, Brian McKnight, Tank. Every once in a while I throw down with them. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#ballad #ballads #brian #down #every