Top 100 Ray Davies Quotes

#1. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

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#2. Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

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#3. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

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#4. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

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#5. When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

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#6. To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

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#7. Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

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#8. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

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#9. I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

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#10. Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

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#11. Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

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#12. You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

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#13. Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

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#14. In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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#15. He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

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#16. The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

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#17. Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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#18. If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

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#19. Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

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#20. Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

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#21. No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

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#22. Paranoia, the destroyer.

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#23. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

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#24. Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

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#25. I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

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#26. Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.

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#27. The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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#28. Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

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#29. Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

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#30. Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

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#31. When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

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#32. If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

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#33. We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

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#34. Yesterday love was such an easy game for you to play. But now let's face it, things are so much easier today. Let it be like yesterday.

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#35. Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

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#36. Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.

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#37. Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

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#38. Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

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#39. Surviving, that's my plan.

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#40. The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

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#41. I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

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#42. Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

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#43. A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

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#44. Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.

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#45. A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

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#46. Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?

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#47. Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

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#48. People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

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#49. The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

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#50. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.

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#51. There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

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#52. Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

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#53. Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.

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#54. Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

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#55. I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

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#56. Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

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#57. Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.

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#58. Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.

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#59. I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

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#60. All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.

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#61. What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

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#62. The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

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#63. I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

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#64. Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

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#65. Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

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#66. Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

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#67. You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.

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#68. I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

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#69. Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

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#70. Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

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#71. She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

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#72. Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

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#73. If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

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#74. Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

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#75. Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

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#76. I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

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#77. At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

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#78. There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

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#79. I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

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#80. My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

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#81. When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

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#82. It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

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#83. You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

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#84. Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

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#85. I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way.

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#86. It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

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#87. We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

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#88. Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

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#89. This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative ... be outrageous!

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#90. Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

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#91. Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.

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#92. When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.

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#93. Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

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#94. Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

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#95. Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.

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#96. The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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#97. My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

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#98. Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman.

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#99. If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.

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#100. The day we were born, we were all God's children.

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