('Other People's Lives') is my first attempt to make a studio album that's got original songs on it, and it's a completely new adventure for me.
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I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.Ray Davies
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
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I have been astonished by the reactions and apparent shame of some of the U.S. television reporters who seemed overwhelmed to discover that there actually is poverty in America, ... They made me want to grab my television and shout 'Hello, dear reporter, yes, America actually does have poor and underprivileged people as well. Hello, yes, the president might well be slow to react but at times like this, that's all that an over-burdened, out-of-touch president can be.
Ray Davies
Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.
Ray Davies
I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
Ray Davies
I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.
Ray Davies
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