Ray Davies Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ray Davies

  Religious, Men, Religion

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Pain, Media

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• You're dumb, but don't give in.

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  Friendship, Giving, Dumb

  Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual

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

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  Sex, Class, Mediocrity

  Song: Did Ya

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• 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.

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  Peace, Swim, Special

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

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  Fashion, Art, Media

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

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  Thinking, Pay The Price, Lazy

  Song: Did Ya

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

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  Fighting, Gun, Needs

  Song: Powerman

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, Littles

  Song: Drift Away

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• Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

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  Trying, Mama, Obesity

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

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  Lying, Self, Evil

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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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  Philosophy, Sleep, Earth

  Ray Davies (2017). “Americana”, p.192, Le Castor Astral éditeur

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• 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.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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

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  Dad, Taught, Used

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

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  Missing, Links, Jazz

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

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  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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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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  Social Unrest, Trying, Unemployment

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

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  Art, School, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Hate, Philosophy, Blow

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

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  Cat, Order, Law

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

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  Philosophy, Gone, Sides

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

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  Adages, Steep

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

  Ray Davies

  Family, Accidents

  Song: Babies, Album: Phobia

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

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  Government, Earth, Politics

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

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  Fashion, Art, Media

  Song: Young Conservatives

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