My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. 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 scratchesanimalphilosophy You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other. Ray Davies i-hate-youhonestyhate Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls. Ray Davies parkshonestygirl If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet. Ray Davies honestysweethoney 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 recordscuttingkeys Plastic man got no brain, plastic man don't feel no pain. Ray Davies painmenphilosophy 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 threedonepeople Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then. Ray Davies middle-of-nowhereyesterdayphilosophy Surviving, that's my plan. Ray Davies survivingplansphilosophy 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 brothertogetherplay No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. Ray Davies penetratefancy 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 earthsleepphilosophy What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor? Ray Davies apartmentphilosophytwo The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural. Ray Davies spiritualanimalphilosophy Now I'm grown up and playing in a band. Ray Davies rock-and-rollband 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 hateblowphilosophy 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 donebelieveway Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling. Ray Davies citizenscallingamerica The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score. Ray Davies artschoolthinking There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive. Ray Davies lorryoilbread
