“If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.”
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Famous Kinky Friedman Quotes
Source: Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files
“My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.”
“My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.”
“There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.”
“There are more inspirational people in music than there are in politics.”
“Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.”
“I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.”
Source: Ten Little New Yorkers: A Novel
“All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.”
Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
“I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.”
“I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.”
Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
“I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.”
Source: Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away
“If you're paranoid long enough, sooner or later you're gonna be right.”
Source: Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away
“I'm not pro-life, and I'm not pro-choice. I'm pro-football.”
Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
Source: You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics
“No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.”
Source: What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World
“People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it.”
“Simón BolÃvar is the only person in history to be exiled from a country named after him.”
“The distance between the limousine and the gutter is a short one.”
“The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.”
“If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!”
Source: You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics
“I want to be governor [of Texas] because I need the closet space.”
Source: The Mile High Club
“The Ten Commandments being taken out of the public schools. I want them back.”
“If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.”
“If Jesus Christ had run as an independent, Rick Perry would have beat him.”
“Sometimes performing someone else's song is more difficult than writing your own.”