Ray Davies Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• 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!

  Ray Davies

  Song, Good Luck, Opportunity

  6 Copy quote

• You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

  Ray Davies

  Friendship, Tvs

  Song: Sitting on My Sofa

  4 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Spiders, Bugs

  Song: Apeman

  7 Copy quote

• I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Eye, Feels

  4 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Blow, Night

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Mean, Politics, Life Means

  Song: Killer's Eyes, Album: Give the People What They Want

  7 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Hate, Philosophy, Mirrors

  Song: Hatred, Album: Phobia

  31 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Gun, Light, Sky

  13 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Thinking, Might, Way

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Dog, Song

  6 Copy quote

• Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Rhythm And Blues, Rhythm

  7 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Mind, Looks

  6 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Home, Goal

  Song: Still Searching, Album: Phobia

  4 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Art, Jobs, Media

  4 Copy quote

• Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Media, People

  6 Copy quote

• The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

  Ray Davies

  Christian, Art, Night

  Song: Give the People What They Want, Album: Give the People What They Want

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

  7 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Ideas, India, Chanting

  8 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Social Taboos, Dresses, Looks

  7 Copy quote

• End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

  Ray Davies

  Work, Wages, Week

  7 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Tree, Insanity, Coconuts

  77 Copy quote

• I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Students, Art Students

  4 Copy quote

• I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

  Ray Davies

  Wall, Flower, Sometimes

  4 Copy quote

• She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

  Ray Davies

  Evil, Waiting, Would Be

  6 Copy quote

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

  Ray Davies

  Fancy, Penetrate

  Song: Fancy

  9 Copy quote

Page 3 of 6

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin