Love Ballad Style

Famous quotes containing the words love, ballad and/or style:

    “And one especiallie doe we affect,
    Of two gold Ingots like in each respect,
    The reason no man knowes, let it suffise,
    What we behold is censur’d by our eies.
    Where both deliberat, the love is slight,
    Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”
    —Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

    “During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known—it was used primarily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is “the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy’s pony.””
    —Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)