Lyrics Quote by Al Stewart

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it…

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

“The literati in their cellars Perform semantic tarantellas. I wish I did it half as well as them.”

— Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed…

— Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre,…

— 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…

— Al Stewart

Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use…

— Al Stewart

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come…

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart