Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.
AL STEWARTWhoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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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 peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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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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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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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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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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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