Ray Davies famous quotes

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Money #Tired #Men

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

#Summer #July #People

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

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

#Government #Needs #Earth

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Trying #Unemployment #News

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Mean #Politics #Life Means

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Sex #Queens #Mean

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?
-- Ray Davies

#Heart #Men #Politics

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing
-- Ray Davies

#Song #Writing #Thinking

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.
-- Ray Davies

#Pain #Philosophy #Men

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

#Philosophy #Yesterday #Tomorrow

Surviving, that's my plan.
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Plans #Surviving

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Taken #Afternoon

The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and ***** 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

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

#Life #Going Away #Relax

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #Pain #Media

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.
-- Ray Davies

#Girlfriend #Art #Media

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

#Art #Media #News

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
-- Ray Davies

#Fashion #Art #Media

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #Media #People

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.
-- Ray Davies

#Christian #Art #Night

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.
-- Ray Davies

#Fashion #Art #Media

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 #Song #Beach

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist
-- Ray Davies

#Writing #Eight #Two

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.
-- Ray Davies

#Girl #World #And Love

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Believe #Order #Evil

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.
-- Ray Davies

#Spiritual #Philosophy #Animal

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Sleep #Earth

When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.
-- Ray Davies

#Princess #Dresses #Feels

Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?
-- Ray Davies

#Thinking #Lazy #Pay

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

#Sleep #Insanity #Might

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

#Tree #Insanity #Coconuts

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

#Education #Being Positive #Chance

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

#Evil #Waiting #Would Be

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

#Work #Drinking #Office

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

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.
-- Ray Davies

#Work #Eye #Cages

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

#Trying #Mama #Obesity

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

#Men #Dumb #Wells

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

#Looks #Alive #Dresses

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Two #Apartment

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.
-- Ray Davies

#Philosophy #Pride #Let It Go

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

#Philosophy #Mind #Looks

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

#Jobs #Rock And Roll #Rocks

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.
-- Ray Davies

#Rock And Roll #Band

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

#Rock And Roll #Lines #Corporations

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.
-- Ray Davies

#Block #Night #Rock And Roll

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #World

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

#Sex #Class #Mediocrity

We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.
-- Ray Davies

#Stars #Missing #Balloons

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

Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Men #Want

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.
-- Ray Davies

#Friendship #Tvs

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

#New Orleans #World #Heritage

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

#Motivational #Inspiration #Imagination

I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #Students

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 #Doing Me #Records

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

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

#Hate #Ends

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues
-- Ray Davies

#Missing #Links #Jazz

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

#Ideas #India #Chanting

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Behind You #Bitter

You're dumb, but don't give in.
-- Ray Davies

#Friendship #Giving #Dumb

Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.
-- Ray Davies

#America #World #Captains

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

#Inspirational #Tomorrow #Accepting

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.
-- Ray Davies

#Games #Play #Yesterday

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

#Lying #Self #Confusion

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.
-- Ray Davies

#Memories #Evil #Alcohol

The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.
-- Ray Davies

#Kings #Rocks #Done

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.
-- Ray Davies

#Mother #Hey #Speak

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.
-- Ray Davies

#Sweat #Smell #Arms

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.
-- Ray Davies

#Death #Cat #Men

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.
-- Ray Davies

#Oil #Bread #Lorry

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #School #Thinking

It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Stars #Cities

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Dream #Light

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

#Thinking #Long #Drones

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.
-- Ray Davies

#Single Life #Done

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
-- Ray Davies

#Clothes #Mirrors #Low Self Esteem

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?
-- Ray Davies

#Low Self Esteem #Punching #Bags

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

#Love #Fighting #Battle

True love is really animal.
-- Ray Davies

#Love #Animal #Love Is

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

#Art #Aunt #Media

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

#Art #Blow #Night

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #Pain #Hero

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.
-- Ray Davies

#Fashion #Art #Media

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

#Dream #Art #Media

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Heart #Rude

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Looks #Misfits

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.
-- Ray Davies

#Art #Stars #Men

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.
-- Ray Davies

#Records #Hot #Life Is

You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.
-- Ray Davies

#Inspirational #Education #Mind