53 Quotes by Al Stewart

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.

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

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

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

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

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.

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.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

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.