Ray Davies
Ray Davies
Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies CBEis an English musician. He was the rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for The Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth21 June 1944
believe finals tape
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.
thinking way might
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.
thinking pay-the-price lazy
Did ya ever think that we would pay the price for being lazy?
philosophy eye feels
I close my eyes and feel the universe within me.
tree insanity ease
The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.
sleep insanity might
Better close your window tight or I might come in for a bite, I'm a sleep walker.
philosophy live-life can-do
Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
philosophy yesterday middle-of-nowhere
Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.
philosophy plans surviving
Surviving, that's my plan.
philosophy taken sunny-afternoon
Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
spiritual philosophy animal
The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.
philosophy sleep earth
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.
men dumb wells
Well I'm not dumb, but I can't understand why she walked like a woman, but talked like a man.
rock-and-roll lines corporations
The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.