Ray Davies Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing. — Ray Davies

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

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. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

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

The day we were born, we were all God's children. — Ray Davies

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

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me. — Ray Davies

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

Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time. — Ray Davies

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

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman. — Ray Davies

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. — Ray Davies

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

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola. — Ray Davies

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident? — Ray Davies

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

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

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

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. — Ray Davies

Surviving, that's my plan. — Ray Davies

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

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land. — Ray Davies

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

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

True love is really animal. — Ray Davies

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

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap. — Ray Davies

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. — Ray Davies

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

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

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. — Ray Davies

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

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

If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet. — Ray Davies

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

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

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for. — Ray Davies

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

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

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Ray Davies

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

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

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath. — Ray Davies

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

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care. — Ray Davies

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats. — Ray Davies

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

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

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

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

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