Ray Davies Quotes - Page 2

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

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

You're dumb, but don't give in.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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