top of page
Quote_1.png
Ray Davies

"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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

More 

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"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."

Driving

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"I was an art student at the time, like thousands of others."

Art

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"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."

Money

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always."

Fancy

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"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."

Man

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time."

Time

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done."

Change

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting."

Idea

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"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."

Beach

Quote_1.png
Ray Davies
"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."

Life

More 

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Aberjhani

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

Author Name

Personal Development

bottom of page