Ray Davies Quotes

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

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.

I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.

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

Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.

They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

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

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

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.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

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

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

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

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

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

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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.

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!

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

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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

True love is really animal.