Ray Davies Quotes

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

I think a lot of people could do with buying a Flying Burrito Brothers record - it does wonders for you.

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

I don't think rock music has any positive function.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I was brought up on rock-'n'-roll. It was sort of funny because I couldn't get interested in anything else - I tried and tried but I couldn't get into science...or mathematics, I just cut myself off from anything else there was to get interested in.

It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll.

Sometimes I feel the music is the only medicine.

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

Rock 'n roll was born in the South, man. It's like saying rock-rock.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

I'm a rock 'n' roll guy, really. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I got "Heartbreak Hotel" tattooed on my chest.

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today