Words matter. These are the best Kinks Quotes from famous people such as Michael Weatherly, Donovan, Ty Segall, Dave Davies, Slash, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, ‘Yeah, we’re the Kinks.’ Celebrate your difference; don’t be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.
When the mid-’70s came around, it looked like, ‘Oh-oh, here come the punks.’ But if you look closely at The Who and The Kinks, the anger and the frustration is there… There is, within me, just the same social discontent as I go through my career. But to be typecast as a singer of peace and love is fine.
I listened to oldies radio stations as a kid; lots of Kinks and Beatles and ’50s hits.
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.
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that’s what my dad was into.
By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
We’ve got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we’ve got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It’s just a huge chunk of time out of life.
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.
I like Dave Davies from the Kinks, before he could play slick.
When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.
We got our old Neve recording console, it was owned by The Kinks for a long time.
I wasn’t on ‘You Really Got Me,’ but I did play on the Kinks’ records.
It was only later that I found out there was good ’70s rock like the Raspberries and the Flaming Groovies. I always gravitated toward the ’60s music more, though, like the Kinks, the Who and the Beatles, of course.
We opened for the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Guess Who, Chuck Berry, Sha Na Na. We opened for Cheech and Chong – I opened for Cheech, and Don opened for Chong.
My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.
My dad was a club musician. He was always playing guitar and playing loads of soul records and ’60s rock n’ roll. Whenever he used to cook, he used to play Donny Hathaway, Aretha Franklin, The Kinks, and the Spencer Davis Group – a lot of really earthy things.
I think the first three Rickenbacker basses were imported around 1964. Pete Quaife, the bassist for The Kinks, bought one. Then John Entwistle from The Who bought one. As for the third one, I asked the manager of the store if I could get an employee discount. He said I could, and so I picked up that one.
I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.
I grew up listening to classic rock – the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It’s filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz – and it was taking too much time in the morning.
I love Radiohead, which most people don’t expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we’re really prepared. With TV, you have a day… Sometimes, just a few hours.
