Ray Davies quotes:

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.

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.

He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again!

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

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

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.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

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!

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

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

They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.

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

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

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.

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

Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

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

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.

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

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

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

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

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

I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.

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

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

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

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.

I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

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.

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

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

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

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

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

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

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

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream.

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.

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

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

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

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

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

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

Paranoia, the destroyer.

Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.

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

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

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

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

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

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

Surviving, that's my plan.

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

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

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

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

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

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

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