Dave Davies Quotations

Good rock music always tends to be around.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

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.

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 well ever have... the earth and nature.

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.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

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.

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.

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.

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 learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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.

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

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that Ive met that seem very genuine to me, but theyre just confused about why it happened. Ive met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine... but theres a lot of crazy people out there.

Since my interest in UFO's, which goes back like 20 years, I've met a lot of loonies. You probably think I'm one anyway, but I don't care anymore.

The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side of my life.

I want people to be entertained and have a good time as well as that there being an undercurrent message hopefully that might be helpful to people.