32 Dave Davies Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dave Davies

British Musician

Born: Feb 3, 1947

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

You People Sometimes Old Get Same Old People Old Thing Thing

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

You Responsibility Everyone Take How Fix Act

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. Dave Davies

Religion Problem Spirituality Big Think Between Been Big Problem Organized Organized Religion

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

Spiritual You Simplicity Path Own Energy Think Find Purity Individual Buddhism Like Hinduism Means Your Many Elements

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

You Early Years Secretive Bit Telling Ripped Kinks About Ray Ideas Makes Understandable Doing Been His Years Cautious Off Very Times Anybody Little Little Bit Why Why Not Early

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

Life Time Crazy People World Cause Important Think State About More Weird Inward Got How Making Important Time Doing Very Going Going Crazy Interact Turning Really Now

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

Other Way Some Dead Little Help Even Each

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 don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. Dave Davies

Me People Telling Write Songs Like Make Trying

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. Dave Davies

Future Spiritual Thought Believe Think Eastern Religious Inspired Mysticism Mainly Yogi Influenced Which Aspect Aspects Many

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

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. Dave Davies

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

You Yourself Side Find Magical Sacred Truer Places

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

Psychic Spiritualism Boy Doing Yoga Interested Even Things Early Started

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

Life Happy Sometimes Problems Long Before Think Our Those Must Born Only Stem Take Ray Him Limelight Boy Arrive Were His Years Effect Quite Childhood Then Away Profound

How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. Dave Davies

Love Own Brother My Own Could Him How Just Stand

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

Dog Three Record Minutes Hound Most Singles Short Really Last

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

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

Life Work Teacher Nature Balance Waiting Our Earth Outer Greatest Always Sitting Us Help Ever Inner Inner Life Need

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

Me People World Try Girl Energy Way Favorite Favorite Part Laughing Part Track Understand End Friends Child So-Called Fields Little Little Girl Grownup Her Watching

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. Dave Davies

Morning Yourself Feeling Sorry No Point Point Up Waking Waking Up

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