Pastoral Resources

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

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.

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

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.

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.

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

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.

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

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.