Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
AL STEWARTNothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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You gave him a license to steal.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
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