Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTDo you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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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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