Ray Davies Quotes

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

True love is really animal.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

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

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

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

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

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

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Paranoia, the destroyer.

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

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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

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

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.

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

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

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

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

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.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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

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.

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.

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

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

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

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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

When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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