Ray Davies 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.

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

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

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

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

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

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 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

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

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

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

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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