“We enjoy talking about music, politics, and subjugation. —Kinky Friedman to Night Rider on KOKE-FM”
Ray Palla, SIMPLE TRIPLE STANDARD“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”
Kinky Friedman“You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.”
Kinky Friedman“Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.”
Kinky Friedman“If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong.”
Kinky Friedman“I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.”
Clive Sinclair“Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most people didn't know what fun was or how to have it, so things usually ended up pretty ugly.”
Kinky Friedman, A Case of Lone Star“Regaring Politics: You’ve got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other”
someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. —Kinky Friedman