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" I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. "
Dave Davies
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" 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. "
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" I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s. "
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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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" I think that things happen for a reason. "
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" 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
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" You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. "
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" I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life. "
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Spiritual
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" 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. "
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" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Me
Thought
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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
" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "
Dave Davies
Own
My Own
Love
" Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there. "
Dave Davies
Find
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Magical
" 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
He
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" You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone. "
Dave Davies
Responsibility
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" 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. "
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Doing
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Why
" Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature. "
Dave Davies
Clouds
Rain
Nature
" 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. "
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Black
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" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "
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Most
Last
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" 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. "
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Music
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" 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. "
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Love
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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Capture
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" All good art, to me, is uncertainty. "
Dave Davies
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" My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. "
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" 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. "
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People
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Always
" 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
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" 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. "
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