Top 120 Ray Davies Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.”

— Ray Davies

52. “Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.”

— Ray Davies

53. “The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.”

— Ray Davies

54. “True love is really animal.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

57. “She can’t see me staring at her cause I’m always wearing shades.”

— Ray Davies

58. “Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

62. “Arty farty, you’ll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.”

— Ray Davies

63. “We’re out of control on this loony balloon, barely missing the other planets and stars.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

66. “The day we were born, we were all God’s children.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

68. “How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?”

— Ray Davies

69. “The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

71. “We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.”

— Ray Davies

72. “I’m sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

80. “Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?”

— Ray Davies

81. “You look like a human being, but you don’t have a mind of your own.”

— Ray Davies

82. “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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

85. “When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues.”

— Ray Davies

86. “Revolution used to be cool, but now it’s out of fashion.”

— Ray Davies

87. “Life is so groovy when your record is hot.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

89. “It’s never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.”

— Ray Davies

90. “The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.”

— Ray Davies

91. “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

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

— Ray Davies

93. “He’s better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

96. “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.”

— Ray Davies

97. “Taken everything I’ve got, all I’ve got’s this sunny afternoon.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

100. “Surviving, that’s my plan.”

— Ray Davies