Ray Davies Quotes

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

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

When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance.

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

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.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

You're dumb, but don't give in.

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.

Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

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

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

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

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

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

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?

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

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.

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

Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.

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

When he puts on that dress, he feels like a princess.

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

We're out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.