Tommy Chong Quotes

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

The spiritual writing of the song is where you're chosen as a vehicle, and it comes from something up above. You don't move; it writes itself. It's very spooky, but that's happened to me just a few times.

All great artists have some spiritual backing.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

My best songs come from a place outside myself.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing to have that inspiration and not to overanalyze it or mess with it; you just follow it if you love what you do.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I believe strongly in inspiration, inspiration literally meaning 'full of the spirit.' I do believe that it comes to you.

There's a relationship between music and spirituality and inspiration and to a certain extent improvisation that draws me in, because I don't totally understand it. I know that those relationships have been telling me, since I started making records, where to go. What to write down.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind