211 Quotes by Ray Davies

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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