Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
AL STEWARTAnd peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
More Al Stewart Quotes
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Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
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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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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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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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So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac.
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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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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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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time.
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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 reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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