Nothing that’s forced can ever be right, if it doesn’t come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWARTLouis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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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The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.
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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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You reach out your hand, but you’re all alone, in those time passages.
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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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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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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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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he’s fresh out of law school.
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Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
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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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Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics.
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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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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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Don’t bother asking for explanations, she’ll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
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