211 Quotes by Ray Davies

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

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.

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.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.