Ray Davies Quotes - Page 3

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!

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

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

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.

I'm the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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

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

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

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

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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.

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