Al Stewart

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— Al Stewart

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

— 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…

— Al Stewart

Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been…

— Al Stewart

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they…

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

— Al Stewart

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway…

— Al Stewart

“What if you reached the Age of Reason, only to find there was no reprieve, Would you be a Man for All…

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

— Al Stewart

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

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