Words matter. These are the best Tommy Chong Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I’d kick back.
The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we’ve brought more families together than Dr. Phil.
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’m as clean as a whistle.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
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 a hybrid.
Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.
A lot of prophets have gone to jail.
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.
The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It’s the height of any musical career.
You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush – if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn’t need a costume. You’d give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There’s no doubt about it.
Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.
I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn’t matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you’d get the girls.
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn’t really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
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.
I’ve always been into improvisation.
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
I was more of a weightlifter.
I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.
I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a ‘brother.’
But you can’t exercise and be high. It’s impossible.
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
‘That ’70s Show’ was one of the highlights of my life. I didn’t expect to be on it as long as I was.
Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.
When they put me in jail, that’s when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
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.
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it’s not you; it’s the spirit world.
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Cigarettes, I won’t do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
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.
Activism, to me, I don’t know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for 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.
There’s a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.
