I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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?
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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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