Kevin Ayers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.
-- Kevin Ayers

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You canâ€™t shine if you donâ€™t burn.
-- Kevin Ayers

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England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
-- Kevin Ayers

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I can't write songs unless I am in love.
-- Kevin Ayers

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If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
-- Kevin Ayers

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The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
-- Kevin Ayers

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Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.
-- Kevin Ayers

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You can’t shine if you don’t burn.
-- Kevin Ayers

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
No one pays me to be nice.
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Kevin Ayers famous quotes

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