Al Stewart Quotes

#1. Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

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#2. Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me.

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#3. 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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#4. Words are my friends.

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#5. 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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#6. We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

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#7. The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

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#8. Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

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#9. 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
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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#10. Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

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#11. Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

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#12. All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

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#13. Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

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#14. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

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#15. Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

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#16. I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

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#17. The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

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#18. You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

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#19. Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

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#20. Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.

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