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. Ray Davies More Quotes by Ray Davies More Quotes From Ray Davies On the surface I'm a mild mannered person, that's until you scratch the animal inside. Ray Davies scratches animal philosophy You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other. Ray Davies i-hate-you honesty hate Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls. Ray Davies parks honesty girl If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet. Ray Davies honesty sweet honey 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. Ray Davies records cutting keys Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain. Ray Davies pain men philosophy 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. Ray Davies three done people Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then. Ray Davies middle-of-nowhere yesterday philosophy Surviving, that's my plan. Ray Davies surviving plans philosophy Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time. Ray Davies brother together play No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. Ray Davies penetrate fancy 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. Ray Davies earth sleep philosophy What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor? Ray Davies apartment philosophy two The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural. Ray Davies spiritual animal philosophy Now I'm grown up and playing in a band. Ray Davies rock-and-roll band 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. Ray Davies hate blow philosophy 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. Ray Davies done believe way Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling. Ray Davies citizens calling america The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score. Ray Davies art school thinking There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive. Ray Davies lorry oil bread