Ray Davies Quotes

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

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

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

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

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

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

Paranoia, the destroyer.

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

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

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

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

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

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

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

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

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

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

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

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

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

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

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

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

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

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