Zitat des Tages von Tommy Chong:
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.
Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.
But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.
Once you're a felon you're a target.
They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.
Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.
Maybe once in a while, you know, after a hard day of shooting or something like that, I'd kick back.
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
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.
I'm as clean as a whistle.
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.
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.
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.
You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.
I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight.
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
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.'
Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.
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.
The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.
Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.
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.
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've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.
I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.
Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.
I'm a hybrid.
The thing is about Cheech & Chong, we've brought more families together than Dr. Phil.