Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don’t you have a word to say?
AL STEWARTThere’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
More Al Stewart Quotes
-
-
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
AL STEWART -
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
AL STEWART -
We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
AL STEWART -
Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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 -
most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
AL STEWART -
I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
AL STEWART -
And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
AL STEWART -
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
AL STEWART -
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.
AL STEWART -
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWART -
There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
AL STEWART -
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWART -
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
AL STEWART -
Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWART






