Ray Davies Quotes

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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.

  Ray Davies

  Money, Tired, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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

  Ray Davies

  Education, Being Positive, Chance

  Song: Attitude, Album: Low Budget

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

  Ray Davies

  Motivational, Inspiration, Imagination

  Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual

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• Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Looks, Misfits

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

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Education, Mind

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Live Life, Can Do

  Song: Live Life

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Behind You, Bitter

  Song: Better Things

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• Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

  Ray Davies

  Care, Pity, Easy

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.22, The Overlook Press

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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

  Ray Davies

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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

  Ray Davies

  Single Life, Done, Ifs

  "When I'm 65", www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Ends

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• The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

  Ray Davies

  Dirty, Politics, Rats

  Song: Brainwashed

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

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Dream, Light

  Song: Wonder Boy

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Aunt, Media

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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.

  Ray Davies

  Summer, July, People

  Song: People Take Pictures Of Each Other

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

  Ray Davies

  Dream, Art, Media

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

  Ray Davies

  Love, Fighting, Battle

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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.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Going Away, Relax

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.205, The Overlook Press

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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.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Order, People

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.214, The Overlook Press

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

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Tomorrow, Accepting

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Brother, Play, Together

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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

  Ray Davies

  Writing, Eight, Two

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Games, Play, Yesterday

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• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Believe, Done, Way

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

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Stars, Cities

  "Celluloid Heroes" (song) (1972)

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