Ray Davies Quotes

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

True love is really animal.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

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

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

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!

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