Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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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Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.
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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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 gave him a license to steal.
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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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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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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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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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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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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I know there’s a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
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