Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Davies
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
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.
I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.
I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.
I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
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.
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.
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.
If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
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.
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.
I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
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.
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.
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
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.
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.
I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.
How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?
They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.
Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.
When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.
Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.
Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.
You're dumb, but don't give in.
The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.
Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.
Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.
Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.
In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.
Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.
Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.
All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
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.
Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
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.
Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
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.
Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.
You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.
Here's hoping all the days ahead, won't be as bitter as the one's behind you. Be an optimist instead, and somehow happiness will find you.
I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing
Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.
Educate us with your media machine, tell me what to dream.
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.
My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.
Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.
Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.
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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