Al Stewart Quotes

I don't want to do something unless it feels organic.

I think everything happens as it's supposed to. I don't want to force anything. I want it to be so authentic that it's seamless.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

It means that Tao doesn't force or interfere with things, but lets them work in their own way, to produce results naturally. Then whatever needs to be done is done.

I just do my thing, what I feel.

You kill the emotion by standardising the behaviours on court. I want authenticity. I want people to be free.

I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.

The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.

Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.

What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

I don't try to do anything. I think the moment that I'm like, "Oh, I have to be this way or that way" is the moment that I become sad, or maybe an asshole. So I just try to be myself and put out what is most natural. But I think I am - I mean, I've seen a lot, been through a lot. But something remains sort of naïve within me. And I just try to nurture that.

Forget what you are supposed to do, do what you want to do.

Jazz to me is the spirit of freedom. I mean real freedom. Freedom to explore. Freedom to express. Freedom to pour out your guts.

Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.

Ah just act the way ah feel.