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.

He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

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.

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty freedom of speech and religion and social justice.

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'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.

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

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.

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

I also plan to release a ballads collection.

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.

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

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.

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

True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.

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

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.

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.

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

When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

It seems like there's a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it's weird. There's people who just don't understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you're condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.