Top 100 Quotes About Ray Davies
#1. In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
Iggy Pop
#2. I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
Adam Schlesinger
#3. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.
Ray Davies
#4. Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.
Ray Davies
#5. Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
Ray Davies
#6. 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.
Ray Davies
#7. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
Ray Davies
#8. 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.
Ray Davies
#9. 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.
Ray Davies
#10. 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.
Ray Davies
#11. She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.
Ray Davies
#12. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
Ray Davies
#13. 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.
Ray Davies
#14. Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.
Ray Davies
#15. Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?
Ray Davies
#16. I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
Ray Davies
#17. You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.
Ray Davies
#18. Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.
Ray Davies
#19. I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
Ray Davies
#20. In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.
Ray Davies
#21. 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!
Ray Davies
#22. The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.
Ray Davies
#23. Life is so groovy when your record is hot.
Ray Davies
#24. Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.
Ray Davies
#25. If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
Ray Davies
#26. Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.
Ray Davies
#27. Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.
Ray Davies
#28. You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.
Ray Davies
#29. No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
Ray Davies
#31. The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.
Ray Davies
#32. Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.
Ray Davies
#33. I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.
Ray Davies
#34. Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.
Ray Davies
#35. The Christians to the lions sold out every night.
Ray Davies
#36. Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.
Ray Davies
#37. Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
Ray Davies
#38. Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.
Ray Davies
#39. When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
Ray Davies
#40. If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?
Ray Davies
#41. We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.
Ray Davies
#42. 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.
Ray Davies
#43. Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.
Ray Davies
#44. Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
Ray Davies
#45. The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.
Ray Davies
#46. Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.
Ray Davies
#47. I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.
Ray Davies
#48. 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.
Ray Davies
#49. Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.
Ray Davies
#50. Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?
Ray Davies
#51. How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?
Ray Davies
#53. Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.
Ray Davies
#54. The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.
Ray Davies
#55. Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
Ray Davies
#56. Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.
Ray Davies
#57. I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.
Ray Davies
#58. What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.
Ray Davies
#59. The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.
Ray Davies
#60. Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
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#61. A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.
Ray Davies
#62. Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.
Ray Davies
#63. A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.
Ray Davies
#65. You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.
Ray Davies
#66. Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.
Ray Davies
#67. The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.
Ray Davies
#68. Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
Dave Davies
#69. Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?
Ray Davies
#70. Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.
Ray Davies
#71. People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
Ray Davies
#72. The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.
Ray Davies
#73. On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.
Ray Davies
#74. Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.
Ray Davies
#75. There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.
Ray Davies
#76. Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.
Ray Davies
#77. Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.
Ray Davies
#78. 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.
Ray Davies
#79. I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.
Ray Davies
#80. Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
Ray Davies
#81. Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.
Ray Davies
#82. 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.
Ray Davies
#83. I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
Ray Davies
#84. If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
Ray Davies
#85. All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
Ray Davies
#86. What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?
Ray Davies
#87. I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
Ray Davies
#88. The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
Ray Davies
#89. I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.
Ray Davies
#90. Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.
Ray Davies
#91. Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.
Ray Davies
#92. I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.
Ray Davies
#93. Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
Ray Davies
#94. They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.
Ray Davies
#95. You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.
Ray Davies
#96. I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.
Ray Davies
#98. Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
Ray Davies
#99. Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?
Ray Davies
#100. She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.
Ray Davies
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