Quotes for All
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a … Read more
I like God Give Me the Strength very much. It’s not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd. I don’t know, its mid-tempo. Mark (St. John) actually wrote it and I think its very telling of our lives in the 60s. Its just a good song, ya know. Dick Taylor
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts. Delia Sherman
Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It’s important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes … Read more
I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I’ve always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance. David Massengill
People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock ‘n roll is on there because it’s another mode of expression. Dan Fogelberg
I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort – I mean I didn’t give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form – all the way from free verse, … Read more
You can separate the men from the boys and ballads. Coleman Hawkins
Inspiration and ideas only come to me when I have not had a woman in a very long time… Ballads, polonaises, even a whole concerto may have been lost forever up your des durka, I can’t tell you how many. I have been so deeply engulfed in my love for you I have hardly created … Read more
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation’s clothes and … Read more