Top 120 Ray Davies Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

3. “Learn to be positive, it’s your only chance.”

— Ray Davies

4. “I’m the mirror to your mood, you hate me and I hate you.”

— Ray Davies

5. “Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don’t feel no pain.”

— Ray Davies

6. “Paranoia, the destroyer.”

— Ray Davies

7. “I’m not cheap, you understand, I’m just a cut price person in a low budget land.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

9. “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

10. “Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that’s been in fashion.”

— Ray Davies

11. “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

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

— Ray Davies

13. “Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can’t recall.”

— Ray Davies

14. “Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it’s on prime time and on Saturday night.”

— Ray Davies

15. “The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I’ve just begun.”

— Ray Davies

16. “You’re dumb, but don’t give in.”

— Ray Davies

17. “I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

19. “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.”

— Ray Davies

20. “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

21. “Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he’s a dedicated follower of fashion.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

24. “What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor?”

— Ray Davies

25. “I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

29. “Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I’m a sleep walker.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

34. “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

35. “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

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

— Ray Davies

37. “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!”

— Ray Davies

38. “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

39. “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

40. “Now I’m grown up and playing in a band.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

45. “You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other.”

— Ray Davies

46. “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

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

50. “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.”

— Ray Davies