Ray davies quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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.

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.

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

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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

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

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

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Paranoia, the destroyer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

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

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

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

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

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.

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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