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" 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. "

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" 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

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Dark

Energy

" 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. "

" We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads. "

" I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled. "

" 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. "

" Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way. "

" I think that things happen for a reason. "

" 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. "

" There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. "

" 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. "

" I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo. "

Dave Davies

Always

House

" I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s. "

" All good art, to me, is uncertainty. "

Dave Davies

Uncertainty

Good Art

" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "

" My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world. "

" When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. "

" I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life. "

" Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature. "

" I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. "

" 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. "

" I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me. "

Dave Davies

Thought

Problems

" Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune. "

" We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now. "

" I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all. "

" 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. "

" You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. "

" You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website. "

" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "

" 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. "

" You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone. "