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
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All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
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What struck me was that it was more like the family Christmas I enjoyed as a child growing up in London. Thanksgiving is a time for sharing and even though they throw up their eyes as though it were a chore, family members traditionally gather for a reunion at the house of the oldest relative.
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('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.
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What you are saying too, is that it's not only what other people are doing, it's what I'm doing, what I'm feeling. It's a little bit selfish as well.
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She only sang. I didn't have to talk to her. I was quite uncomfortable, but I thought it was a nice moment. Love ends, but songs are for ever. They capture a moment and an emotion. You can have two human beings who should not be in the same house, or possibly even the same country, but the music tells you that it really could have been for ever. In those three minutes, there are no hard feelings.
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I have been astonished by the reactions and apparent shame of some of the U.S. television reporters who seemed overwhelmed to discover that there actually is poverty in America, ... They made me want to grab my television and shout 'Hello, dear reporter, yes, America actually does have poor and underprivileged people as well. Hello, yes, the president might well be slow to react but at times like this, that's all that an over-burdened, out-of-touch president can be.
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Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.
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I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.
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This is a new, exciting phase for me. I'm really looking forward to playing this stuff.
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I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
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Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.
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Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?
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Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.
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Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.