Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWARTDon’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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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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