So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
AL STEWARTmost of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it’s a tribal thing.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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You gave him a license to steal.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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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