Maria Konnikova

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

American Writer

Willie Nelson

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

American Musician

Millie Bobby Brown

I started singing before I started talking. And that's the God's honest truth. I think it was something that I've always loved to do, even if I wasn't good at it. I just loved ballads.

English Actress

Douglas MacArthur

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

American General

Laura Bell Bundy

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

American Actress

Olly Murs

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

English Musician

Bob Dylan

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Lee Tae-min

We have dance songs and ballad songs, but Baekhyun's voice plays a very important role. That's a really important speciality of Baekhyun.

South Korean Musician

Tulisa

I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.

Eric Carmen

I always wrote ballads, and I always wrote rockers.

Ballads often recount events or tales, sometimes based on historical or mythical themes.

Storytelling Song

Musical ballads usually have a simple melody and chorus that make them memorable.

Musical Structure

Ballads can evoke strong feelings and are often used to express deep emotions in music.

Emotional Connection

Performing a ballad well requires conveying emotion through voice or instrument dynamics.

Expressive Performance

Ballads are often associated with themes of love and sadness, providing relatability.

Love and Sadness

Literary ballads follow a poetic structure with rhyme and meter, which help in memorization.

Poetic Form

Traditional ballads carry cultural stories and values, often passed down orally.

Cultural Heritage

Ballads focus on storytelling over complex lyrical metaphors, prioritizing clear narrative.

Narrative Focus

 Stanford has done research on one of the best ways to shape organizational culture, and it is storytelling, because it's going to demonstrate what you value and encourage or what you don't value and what you discourage. As you start to write your power ballad, most people want to start with the data.

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 they had the new electronic microphone as recording equipment gets smaller there is the ability then to go out into those areas where the musicians actually are from in order to get new material what this region has musically is a fusion of English ballads and you know

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 percent of the respondents were asked to judge this what about the second piece a little bit slower in a minor key the majority of respondents actually picked blue what about the third slightly weird rock ballad what came up for you there if it was red then you're

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 ended up in what is probably, acoustically, the worst sounding venues on the sports stadiums, basketball arenas and hockey arenas. Musicians who ended up there did the best they could. They wrote what is now called arena rock, which is medium-speed ballads.

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 And every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive. Now the raw material of it, of course, is just the music of everyday life. It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches.

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 Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It's redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads. After all, what constitutes a world leader? If it's population, we're on course to top the charts.

Why nations should...

 material of it of course is just the music of everyday life it's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches but what classical music does is to distill all of these musics down to condense them to their absolute essence

Music and emotion...

 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation

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 stadiums basketball arenas and hockey arenas musicians that who ended up there did the best they could they wrote what is now called arena rock which is medium speed ballads

 Mark This is my favorite part. You gotta have doorstops. That's important. We all love music a great deal. Anthems, dance crazes, ballads and marches.