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Ray Davies

"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

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"I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere."

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"There are always flowers for those who want to see them."

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"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

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"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

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"I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids."

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"I'm a hopeless romantic, and very much the person in a relationship to go: If things are going well, I'll buy the flowers, remember the dates of things, plan fun nights out."

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

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"I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back."

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"The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also."

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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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"I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone."
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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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"I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere."
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"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."
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"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear."
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"Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done."
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"What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man."
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"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."
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"At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing."
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