Dave Davies Quotes
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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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My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.
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'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.
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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.
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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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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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I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.
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Good rock music always tends to be around.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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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.
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How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him.
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I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think that things happen for a reason.
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Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.
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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.
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I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.