Quotes: Ballads

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.

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.

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

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

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 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.

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.

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

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.