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" 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
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" 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
Me
Thought
Problems
" I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young. "
Dave Davies
Live
Think
Young
" Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing. "
Dave Davies
You
Old
People
" 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. "
Dave Davies
You
Path
Simplicity
" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "
Dave Davies
Most
Last
Minutes
" All good art, to me, is uncertainty. "
Dave Davies
Uncertainty
Me
Good Art
" 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. "
Dave Davies
People
Question
Always
" 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
" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "
Dave Davies
Own
My Own
Love
" 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
Spiritual
Think
Future
" 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. "
Dave Davies
Me
Looking
Problems
" I think that things happen for a reason. "
Dave Davies
Happen
Reason
Things Happen
" 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
" You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone. "
Dave Davies
Responsibility
You
Fix
" My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. "
Dave Davies
Like
Music
Family
" My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world. "
Dave Davies
End
Energy
World
" 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
" 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 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
Always
House
" 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
" 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. "
Dave Davies
Love
Understanding
World
" 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
" 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
" Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune. "
Dave Davies
Those
Tune
Songs
" I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life. "
Dave Davies
Spiritual
Life
Foundation
" Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way. "
Dave Davies
Some
Little
Other
" 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. "
Dave Davies
Dancing
Place
Important
" Good rock music always tends to be around. "
Dave Davies
Always
Rock Music
Rock
" I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs. "
Dave Davies
People
Me
Like
" 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