Top 120 Ray Davies Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.”

— Ray Davies

102. “You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.”

— Ray Davies

103. “Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.”

— Ray Davies

104. “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.”

— Ray Davies

105. “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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

109. “Powerman don’t need to fight, powerman don’t need guns, powerman got money on his side.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

113. “If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?”

— Ray Davies

114. “Money’s the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

116. “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.”

— Ray Davies

117. “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.”

— Ray Davies

118. “I don’t think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.”

— Ray Davies

119. “A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it’s killing time.”

— Ray Davies

120. “Pity is easy, but it is difficult to care.”

— Ray Davies

121. “I’ve written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.”

— Ray Davies

122. “Yin and Yang control man’s actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

124. “Live life, see it through. Carry on, it’s all you can do.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

126. “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.”

— Ray Davies

127. “I like surfers. Their imagery, it’s great.”

— Ray Davies

128. “Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.”

— Ray Davies

129. “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.”

— Ray Davies

130. “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.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

132. “Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.”

— Ray Davies

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

— Ray Davies

134. “You got all your friends, I got a TV set.”

— Ray Davies