Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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