Quotes by Dave Davies

About Dave Davies:

David Russell Gordon "Dave" Davies is an English musician, a multi-instrumentalist best known for his role as lead guitarist and vocalist for the English rock band the Kinks, which also featured his brother Ray Davies.
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I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

Dave Davies

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

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.

Dave Davies

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 ou...

Dave Davies

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

Dave Davies

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.

Dave Davies

Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.

Dave Davies

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

Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

Dave Davies

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.

Dave Davies

I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.

Dave Davies

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.

Dave Davies

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Dave Davies

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

Dave Davies

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

Dave Davies

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.

Dave Davies

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

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

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

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 an...

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Author Bio

  • NameDave Davies
  • DescriptionEnglish musician
  • BornFebruary 3, 1947
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist