Cat Stevens Quotes

My Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still? I'll wake you tomorrow, and you will be my fill, Yes, you will be my fill

Give me time forever here in my time

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

This stranger had the key To any door he wished — with his eyes, I say <p> What kind of majiks, of majiks? What kind of man — Can make me turn and see the way I really am?

I don’t want to work away Doing just what they all say

I love my dog as much as I love you But you may fade, my dog will always come through.

As years went by the boy grew high And the village looked on in awe They’d never seen anything like The boy with the moon and star before And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the word he spread "I'll tell you everything I've learned," And "Love", is all he said.

Don’t you remember the days Of the old schoolyard When we had imaginings and we had All kinds of things and we laughed And needed love … yes, I do Oh and I remember you

Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.

Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry? Will you tell us when to live; will you tell us when to die? I know we've come a long way, We're changing day to day, But tell me, where do the children play?

She moves like and angel And seven evening stars Dance through the window Of her universal house

Sun is the reason And the world it will bloom ‘Cause sun lights the sky And the sun lights the moon

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

But take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you’ve got For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not

I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini — and still don’t. The book itself destroyed the harmony between peoples and created an unnecessary international crisis. When asked about my opinion regarding blasphemy, I could not tell a lie and confirmed that — like both the Torah and the Gospel — the Qur’an considers it, without repentance, as a capital offense. The Bible is full of similar harsh laws if you’re looking for them. However, the application of such Biblical and Qur’anic injunctions is not to be outside of due process of law, in a place or land where such law is accepted and applied by the society as a whole.