Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTLooking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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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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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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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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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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Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.
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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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And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across 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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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we’ve come.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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