Bill Hicks's Quotes

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.

It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?