Ray Davies Quotes

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

— Ray Davies

“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.”

— Ray Davies

“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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“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

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

— Ray Davies

“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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“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

“Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.”

— Ray Davies

“A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.”

— Ray Davies

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.

— Ray Davies

“Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.”

— Ray Davies

“Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.”

— Ray Davies

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.

— Ray Davies

“On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

— Ray Davies

“I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.”

— Ray Davies

“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.”

— Ray Davies

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.”

— Ray Davies

“I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.”

— Ray Davies

“True love is really animal.”

— Ray Davies

“You don't have to be a genius to find the hidden potential deep in your mind.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.”

— Ray Davies

“It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.”

— Ray Davies

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

— Ray Davies

“Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.”

— Ray Davies

“The Christians to the lions sold out every night.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

“You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.”

— Ray Davies

“Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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.

— Ray Davies

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

— Ray Davies