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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny. "

" 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. "

" No. Maceo played sax, didn't he, well they used to sit in. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself. "

" A lot of prophets have gone to jail. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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