Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
AL STEWARTOnly two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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