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
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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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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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 reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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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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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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