Ray Davies Quotes

• One week he’s in polka-dots, the next week he’s in stripes ’Cos he’s a dedicated follower of fashion.

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

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• At one time they’ve been the most important thing to me. So I can’t hear our records on the radio, I can’t stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

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

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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.

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• I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I like surfers. Their imagery, it’s great.

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

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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

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• What I try to do probably doesn’t come out. What I’ve worked out what I do – I might not be right – is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again – a better man.

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• When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can’t reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

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Ray Davies (22)

Birth:	21st June, 1944
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist

About

Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. Since the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Ray Davies has embarked on a solo career as a singer-songwriter.

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