Quotes by Dave Davies - Page 1

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
Dave Davies / Musician
Good Art
Uncertainty
Art Good Me
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I think that things happen for a reason.
Dave Davies / Musician
Happens
Reason
Things Happen
Thinking
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Good rock music always tends to be around.
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Rock Music
Rocks
Good Music Always
Rock
Tends
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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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Chords
Five
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Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.
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Barely
Tune
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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Helping
Littles
Way
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There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.
Dave Davies / Musician
Morning
No Point
Sorry
Waking
Waking Up
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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Perspective
Should
World
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Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
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Old People
Old Thing
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I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
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People
Song
Writing
Me People Trying
Telling
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I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.
Dave Davies / Musician
Enjoy
Thinking
Young
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'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.
Dave Davies / Musician
Singles
Hound
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Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.
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Sacred
Side
Magical
Places
Truer
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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
Dave Davies / Musician
Organized
Organized Religion
Problem
Spirituality
Thinking
Big Problem
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It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes.
Dave Davies / Musician
Body
Good Vibes
Vibes
Good World Anything
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Responds
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You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
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Hunting
Popping
Glued
Jacket
Pub
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I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
Dave Davies / Musician
New Things
Science Fiction
Sentimental
Science New Science Fiction
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Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
Dave Davies / Musician
Being Alone
Clouds
Rain
Scary
Realise
Settle
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I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
Dave Davies / Musician
Yoga
Spiritualism
Psychic
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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
Dave Davies / Musician
Banging
Folk
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I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.
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Embrace
Always Me Grow
Corner
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When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
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Disillusioned
Insecure
Content
Brood
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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Jimmy
Big Fan
Perk
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I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
Dave Davies / Musician
Anger
Academic
Angst
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I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
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Buddhism
Spiritual Life
Stones
Life Always Energy
Teachings
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I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
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Healing
Mindset
Confront
Faced
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We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.
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General Public
Hardcore
Love Hate
Question Mark
People Fans Always
Heads
Leaves
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We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
Dave Davies / Musician
Compassion
Issues
Leader
Understanding
Love World Compassion
Address
Leaders
Obviously
Properly
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I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson.
Dave Davies / Musician
Bless
Capture
Comedian
Tribute
Dawson
Les
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What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.
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Aspect
Believe
Eastern
Mysticism
Religious
Spiritual
Yogi
Future Believe I Believe
Influenced
Mainly
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I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.
Dave Davies / Musician
Dad Always Guitar
Banjo
Sisters
Dad Guitar Always
Parties
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As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.
Dave Davies / Musician
Buddhism
Elements
Energy
Hinduism
Individual
Mean
Path
Purity
Spiritual
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You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.
Dave Davies / Musician
Technology
Incomplete
Interesting
Leave Me Alone
Website
Improve
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Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
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Consciousness
Paint
Measure
Proved
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Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.
Dave Davies / Musician
Long Time
Time Work Always
Automatic
Work Time Long
Happening
Ray
Seemed
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A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
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Psychology
Our Music
Tossed
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My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
Dave Davies / Musician
Fields
Track
Favorite Part
Grownup
Little Girl
So-Called
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
Dave Davies / Musician
Cautious
Ripped
Secretive
Why Not
Early Years
Ray
Telling
Understandable
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We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.
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Teacher
Balance
Waiting
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The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
Dave Davies / Musician
Enlightening
Family Music Dad
Banjo
Sisters
Encourages
Sang
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We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature.
Dave Davies / Musician
Teacher
Balance
Earth
Inner Life
Sitting
Waiting
Life Nature Work
Greatest
Help
Inner
Outer
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A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
Dave Davies / Musician
Cutting
Giving Up
Previous Life
Spiritual
Cut
Embark
Endeavors
Previous
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that Ive met that seem very genuine to me, but theyre just confused about why it happened. Ive met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but theres a lot of crazy people out there.
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Confused
Crazy
People
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People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.
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Confused
Crazy People
Genuine
Regard
Me People Crazy
Experiences
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What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.
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Point Of View
Seemingly
Unsolvable
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I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.
Dave Davies / Musician
Human Beings
Thinking
Want
Weakness
Beings
Controlling
Same Thing
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I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time.
Dave Davies / Musician
Crazy
Going Crazy
Inward
People
Thinking
Weird
Life Time World
Turning
Important Time
Interact
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Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
Dave Davies / Musician
Limelight
Profound
Stem
Arrive
Ray
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