Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
AL STEWARTWe measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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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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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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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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The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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