Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTOnly two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
More Al Stewart Quotes
-
-
Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWART -
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.
AL STEWART -
And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
AL STEWART -
I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWART -
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWART -
most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
AL STEWART -
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
AL STEWART -
Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
AL STEWART -
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.
AL STEWART -
Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWART -
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
AL STEWART -
On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
AL STEWART -
You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
AL STEWART -
The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
AL STEWART -
So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
AL STEWART