Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTMovie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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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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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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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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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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