Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually. Al Stewart More Quotes by Al Stewart More Quotes From Al Stewart The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming. Al Stewart evening voice expression Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. Al Stewart future past fall I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it. Al Stewart bigs knows world 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. Al Stewart peers running reality 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. Al Stewart rocks rap country The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. Al Stewart wells half wish There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it. Al Stewart rocks historical world You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. Al Stewart all-alone sadness hands Of all the girls I ever knew Al Stewart learning girl song Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. Al Stewart alaska order school Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart trumpets judgment future Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. 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? Al Stewart land long travel She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain. Al Stewart expression rain running Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it. Al Stewart adages ifs 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. Al Stewart media giving art Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. Al Stewart media queens art On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. 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. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat. Al Stewart running country travel Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me. Al Stewart hendrix peppers real 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. Al Stewart live ignore me people
