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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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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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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