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Ray Davies

"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."

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"Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep."
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"I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that."
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"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
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"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."
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"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
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