I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWARTThe evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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You gave him a license to steal.
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There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?
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Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain.
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most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
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She doesn’t give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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