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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. "
Dave Davies
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" 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. "
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" Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way. "
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" I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. "
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" 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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" I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person. "
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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. "
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" How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with him. "
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" I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young. "
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" I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow. "
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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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" Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing. "
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" When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been. "
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" 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. "
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" I think that things happen for a reason. "
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" 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. "
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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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Sex
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" I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all. "
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Five
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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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" 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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" My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world. "
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" There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. "
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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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" You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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