Quotes from Ray Davies

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.

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

True love is really animal.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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