Best 75 quotes of Tommy Chong on MyQuotes

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.

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We have a team in Nevada that is looking for licensed cultivators to grow Chong's Choice. Hopefully recreational passes this year and we can go full force.

We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.

We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.

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

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.

We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top on down. You know, it's built based on lies. However, the marijuana industry itself, because it was an underground industry, showed us the way we could exist on this planet.

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.

When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

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.

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 can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!

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

You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

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.

Fuck you, Taft.