Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTMovie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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.
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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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