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" 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. "

Tommy Chong

Brain

You

World

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Tommy Chong

Thing

Got

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Tommy Chong

You

Know

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" Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. "

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Cosmic

Happens

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

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

" If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane. "

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Take

Paid

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

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

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

Tommy Chong

Poet

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. "

Tommy Chong

Beginning

Positive

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" 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. "