Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
AL STEWARTWhoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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You gave him a license to steal.
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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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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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