Ray Davies Quotes

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

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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

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

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

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

Surviving, that's my plan.

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

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

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

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 day we were born, we were all God's children.

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

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.

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.

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

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

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

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 met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

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

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

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.

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

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

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

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

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.