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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• 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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  Tags in Time, Record, Reach, Find

• 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.

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  Tags in Song, Wrote, Morning

• 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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  Tags in Try, Worked, Right, Personal

• Those three chords were part of my life – G, F, Bb – yeh, it is, it is, and I can’t help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven’t noticed, other things we have done.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Chord

• 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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  Tags in Brother, Friend, Wanted

• 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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  Tags in People, Picture, Summer, Proved

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

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  Tags in Consisted, Rhythm

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

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  Tags in Penetrates, Fancy

• 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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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Corruption, Politician, Tired, Promises

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

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  Tags in Die, Music, Disappear

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

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Change, Thing

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

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  Tags in Written, Song

• 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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  Tags in Person, Put, Sometimes

• 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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  Tags in Person, Living, Else

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

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  Topics in Art

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

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  Tags in Started, Changed, Spending

• 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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  Tags in Believe, Done, Happen

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

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  Tags in Imagery

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

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  Tags in Chanting, Idea, India

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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