Ray Davies Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

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

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

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

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

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

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!

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

True love is really animal.

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

There is a guy on my block who lives for rock, he plays records day and night, and when he feels down he puts the rock and roll on and it makes him feel alright.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

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

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

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