Top 144 Quotes & Sayings by Ray Davies - Page 2

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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 think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

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

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

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by.

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

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.

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.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

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

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Surviving, that's my plan.

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

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

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

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

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!

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

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

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

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

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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

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

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

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

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

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.

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

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

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

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

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

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

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

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

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

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