Ray Davies Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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

  Ray Davies

  Government, Earth, Politics

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• Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Gone, Sides

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• 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!

  Ray Davies

  Song, Good Luck, Opportunity

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

  Ray Davies

  Friendship, Tvs

  Song: Sitting on My Sofa

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Spiders, Bugs

  Song: Apeman

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Blow, Night

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• I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Eye, Feels

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

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Philosophy, Mirrors

  Song: Hatred, Album: Phobia

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

  Ray Davies

  Gun, Light, Sky

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Might, Way

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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.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Dog, Song

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

  Ray Davies

  Country, Rhythm And Blues, Rhythm

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Home, Goal

  Song: Still Searching, Album: Phobia

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Jobs, Media

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, People

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• The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

  Ray Davies

  Christian, Art, Night

  Song: Give the People What They Want, Album: Give the People What They Want

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

  Ray Davies

  Ideas, India, Chanting

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

  Ray Davies

  Social Taboos, Dresses, Looks

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

  Ray Davies

  Work, Wages, Week

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• There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Heaven, Religion

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

  Ray Davies

  Fancy, Penetrate

  Song: Fancy

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• Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.

  Ray Davies

  America, Citizens, Calling

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• The day we were born, we were all God's children.

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Children, Religion

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