Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWARTShe 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.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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