Ray Davies Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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.”
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“People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.”
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“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!”
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“Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?”
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“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”
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“Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.”
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“Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.”
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“Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.”
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“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.”
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“All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.”
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“I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.”
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“My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.”
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“Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.”
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“Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.”
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“Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.”
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“The Christians to the lions sold out every night.”
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“Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.”
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“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.”
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“If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist”
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“Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.”
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“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.”
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“The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.”
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“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.”
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“When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.”
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“Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?”
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