Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWARTLouis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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