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" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "
Dave Davies
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" As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy. "
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You
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Simplicity
" Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there. "
Dave Davies
Find
Places
Magical
" What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future. "
Dave Davies
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" We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have... the earth and nature. "
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Nature
Life
Waiting
" The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang. "
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Dancing
Place
Important
" My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world. "
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Perspective
World
You
" All good art, to me, is uncertainty. "
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Uncertainty
Me
Good Art
" You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. "
Dave Davies
Going
Hunting
Jacket
" Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born. "
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Problems
Life
Happy
" What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently. "
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Me
Looking
Problems
" Good rock music always tends to be around. "
Dave Davies
Always
Rock Music
Rock
" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "
Dave Davies
Own
My Own
Love
" People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but there's a lot of crazy people out there. "
Dave Davies
People
Crazy
Confused
" I can't stand tribute bands. It's nice, bless 'em, but it's not right. They can't capture the right spirit. You never see a tribute comedian, a tribute Les Dawson. "
Dave Davies
Capture
Nice
Stand
" It's the easiest thing in the world to be down about anything. I think the body responds to good vibes. "
Dave Davies
Good
Body
Down
" Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way. "
Dave Davies
Some
Little
Other
" When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. "
Dave Davies
Been
Content
Future
" Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black. "
Dave Davies
Black
Dark
Energy
" I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s. "
Dave Davies
Early
Started
Things
" I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. "
Dave Davies
Person
New Things
New
" I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important time. "
Dave Davies
Think
Time
World
" I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again. "
Dave Davies
Used
Big
Him
" I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young. "
Dave Davies
Live
Think
Young
" A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to. "
Dave Davies
Listening
Body
You
" Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune. "
Dave Davies
Those
Tune
Songs
" A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. "
Dave Davies
Think
Up
Life
" Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. "
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Time
Long Time
Long
" I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. "
Dave Davies
People
Me
Like
" Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable. "
Dave Davies
Doing
Ideas
Why
" I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. "
Dave Davies
Politics
Want
Think