Canadian - Actor | May 24, 1938 -
I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.
Tommy Chong
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The GRAMMY was a huge deal. It's the height of any musical career.
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What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
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