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Ray Davies

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I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.


— Ray Davies


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At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.


— Ray Davies


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I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.


— Ray Davies


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I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.


— Ray Davies


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I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.


— Ray Davies


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I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others.


— Ray Davies


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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.


— Ray Davies


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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


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I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.


— Ray Davies


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If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.


— Ray Davies


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For example "Holiday in Waikiki" (1966) deplored the vulgar commercialization of a once unspoiled indigenous culture. Davies' setlist included material by the Kinks and solo material. Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II the postwar austerity years and up to the 1960s.

: /ˈdeɪvɨz/ DAY-viz; born 21 June 1944) is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for The Kinks which he led with his younger brother Dave. Raymond Douglas "Ray" Davies CBE (pron.

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