British - Musician | February 3, 1947 -
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
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All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
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Exmoor and Dartmoor are sacred, magical places. You find a truer side of yourself there.
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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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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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I have always worked with energy. Everything is energy. Buddhism. Christ teachings. These are foundation stones for a spiritual life.
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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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How could I not love my own brother? I just can't stand to be with 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.
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Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.
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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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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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