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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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