Ray Davies Quotes - Page 4

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• If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Thinking, Black

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• Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

  Ray Davies

  Silly, Boys, Advice

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

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• The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

  Ray Davies

  Soul, Needs, Attention

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• Paranoia, the destroyer.

  Ray Davies

  Paranoia, Adages, Destroyers

  Song: All Day and All of the Night

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• Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

  Ray Davies

  Plot, Bombers, Politics

  Song: Have Another Drink, Album: Soap Opera

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• There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

  Ray Davies

  Oil, Bread, Lorry

  Song: (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman, Album: Low Budget

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

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Long, England

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

  Ray Davies

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Animal

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Taken, Sunny Afternoon

  "Sunny Afternoon". Song by Ray Davies, 1966.

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• Surviving, that's my plan.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Plans, Surviving

  Song: Surviving, Album: Phobia

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Important, Sound, Doing Me

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

  Ray Davies

  Pain, Philosophy, Men

  Song: Plastic Man

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• Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

  Ray Davies

  Hot, Records, Life Is

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Animal, Scratches

  Song: Hatred, Album: Phobia

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• 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!

  Ray Davies

  Fashion, Flower, Thinking

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

  Ray Davies

  Song, Elsewhere, Englishmen

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• I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Students, Art Students

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Design, Too Late

  Song: Think Visual, Album: Think Visual

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

  Ray Davies

  Work, Eye, Sitting

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

  Ray Davies

  Work, Drinking, Office

  Song: When Work Is Over, Album: Soap Opera

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Blow, Men, Air

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

  Ray Davies

  Sleep, Insanity, Might

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

  Ray Davies

  Tree, Insanity, Coconuts

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

  Ray Davies

  Jobs, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Song: Top of the Pops

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

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Band

  Song: Come Dancing

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