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Ray Davies

"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."

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"Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things."

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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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"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 was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."
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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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"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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"When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing."
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"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."
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