Ray Davies Quotes - Page 2

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• 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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  Games, Play, Yesterday

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

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  Religious, Men, Religion

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• 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.

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  Believe, Done, Way

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

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  Art, Pain, Media

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• 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.

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  Social Unrest, Trying, Unemployment

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• You're dumb, but don't give in.

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  Friendship, Giving, Dumb

  Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual

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• 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.

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  Peace, Swim, Special

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• Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

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  Fashion, Art, Media

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

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  Men, Dumb, Wells

  Song: Lola, Album: See My Friends

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

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  Philosophy, Yesterday, Middle Of Nowhere

  Song: Do It Again

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• Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

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  Fighting, Gun, Needs

  Song: Powerman

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

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  Thinking, Pay The Price, Lazy

  Song: Did Ya

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

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  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Drift Away

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• Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

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  Trying, Mama, Obesity

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

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  Lying, Self, Evil

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Sleep, Earth

  Ray Davies (2017). “Americana”, p.192, Le Castor Astral éditeur

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• 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.

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  Country, Dog, Song

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

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  Philosophy, Mind, Looks

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• My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

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  Dad, Taught, Used

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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• 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.

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  Hate, Philosophy, Blow

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

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  Government, Earth, Politics

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• Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

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  Cat, Order, Law

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

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  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Young Conservatives

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• When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

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  Missing, Links, Jazz

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