211 Quotes by Ray Davies

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

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

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’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.

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

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.

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

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.

Surviving, that’s my plan.