Kevin Ayers Quotes

#1. We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you don't have to explain it.

Kevin Ayers

#3. Life turns on a dime.

Stephen King

#4. You can't shine if you don't burn.

Kevin Ayers

#5. A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

Woodrow Wilson

#6. I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

Babe Ruth

#7. At four that morning my son, Peter Williams Chambliss, slid into the world tiny and red and roaring with life and the awful love that caught and whirled me away when they laid him on my stomach was as strong and old as the earth and would, I knew dimly, abide as long.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#8. That was something. As opposed to nothing.

Kevin Ayers

#9. Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

Kevin Ayers

#10. Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.

Augustine Of Hippo

#11. That's like the dog calling the cat's arse hairy!

Marian Keyes

#12. Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

Joe Fortenberry

#13. Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

Lois Greiman

#14. Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Francis Thompson

#15. I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Kevin Ayers

#16. These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

Kevin Ayers

#17. There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

James Young

#18. A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

Mario Testino

#19. If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.

Kevin Ayers

#20. The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

Kevin Ayers

#21. I came, I saw, I conquered.

Gaius Julius Caesar

#22. I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, - This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Emily Dickinson

#23. England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.

Kevin Ayers

#24. The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

Kevin Ayers

#25. I can't write songs unless I am in love.

Kevin Ayers