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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.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about society, state, age, olderness, nothing

The folk-origin of ballads and the multiple authorship of epics are heresies worse than the futilities of the Baconians; at any rate, they are based on the same resolute omission, and build on it a wilder fantasy.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about origin

I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to...

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

Quote by Joe Cocker about day, contentment, people

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a...

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

Quote by Brad Paisley about music

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