Rock Ballads Quotes & Sayings

Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal! — E. M. Forster

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. — Tom Stoppard

All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched. — Kelly Blatz

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious. — Deepak Chopra

The music was loud but mellow. It was a mix-tape of ballads but by heavy metal artists. All the songs said the same thing: it's okay to take a three-minute break from fighting and fucking and drinking; love your girlfriend and be sad; unclench your fist and hold someone until it's time to rock again. — Dave Newman

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap. — Thalia

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off. — Bonnie Raitt

Thus you may understand that love alone
is the true seed of every merit in you,
and of all acts for which you must atone. — Dante Alighieri

I love rock ballads, and I'm kind of in emotional turmoil, being ill and high, so I start to sing to the song, I turn it up and start to sing. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Never accept a fact until it has been verified by theory. — Arthur Eddington

Either way, it fucking sucked. Either way, I was fucked. Either way, it fucking sucked that I was fucked. — Jeff Menapace

I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs. — Bonnie Raitt

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it. — Lawrence Block

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny. — Gilbert Gottfried

He liked the fragility of those moments
suspended in time. Those memories
whose only function is to leave just a trace in memory. — Chris Marker