Tommy Chong Quotes

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

I've always been into improvisation.

The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.

I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had that feeling. I think my mother installed it when I was a little guy.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in such a way that the funny jokes become funnier.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I'd rather have my kid smoking pot than drinking.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate ... but with music it's just music.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

Look at all the drug busts all over the country. There must be an audience there somewhere. My feeling is that if we're losing the war on drugs, let's do a movie for the enemy.

Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

'That '70s Show' was one of the highlights of my life. I didn't expect to be on it as long as I was.

And I don't really drink alot of booze, alcohol will kill ya ... but I smoke all the pot I can find, I don't smoke it all at once, I just do a little bit at a time, and I uh, I used to take acid but I quit around 1971.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

I was more of a weightlifter.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.