#Drugs Quotes

“Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.”

“God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.We try to cry, but still they all die,I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.”

“Gettin high, livin' everday, like i'm gonna die.”

“I slipped myself some pink Xannies/And danced around the house in all-over print panties.”

“Yo I'm seventeen, already sniffin blow. I tell my friends its asthmary time I itch my throat, I got a new show for MTV, Pimp My Boat.”

“Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.”

“Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.”

“I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast”

“We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!”

“Marijuana is probably the most dangerous drug in America today.”

“I couldn't imagine living the way I used to live. Now people come up to me from the drug days and go, 'Hi, remember me?' And I'm going, 'No, did I have sex with you? Did I take a dump in your tool box?'”

“I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems.”

“There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.”

“Sure I smoked pot in hospital. My wife won't let me toke at home.”

“In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.”

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”

“Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.”

“When I was growing up they used to say, "Robin, drugs can kill you." Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, "Robin, you need drugs to live." I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer.”

“Because of acid, I now know that butter is way better than margarine.”

“A friend gave me a drug for attention deficit disorder, because he's afflicted, but I'm not. So what happened to me is I suddenly had an extra-long attention span. People would tell me a story, and it would end, and I'd get all mad. "Come on, man, there has to be more to that story."”

“When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.”

“I once Experimented with marijuna, next thing I know I'm waking up with blood on my hands.......and not my own blood.”

“I had to take a physical to do this show. They had a lot of weird questions like, "Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?"”

“When we were on acid, we would go into the woods, because there was less chance that you would run into an authority figure. But we ran into a bear. My friend Duane was there, raising his right hand, swearing to help prevent forest fires. He told me, "Mitchell, Smokey is way more intense in person!"”

“Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?”

“The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.”

“I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.”

“Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.”

“Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.”

“Never do coke with an intern ... they may not be 21”

“Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.”

“Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.”

“I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything.”

“If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.”

“In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.”

“The first line (of I Am The Walrus) was written on one acid trip one weekend. The second line was written on the next acid trip the next weekend, and it was filled in after I met Yoko.”

“He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.”

“The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.”

“The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.”

“It's amazing how low you go to get high.”

“Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.”

“Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.”

“If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.”

“The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?”

“Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach”

“right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.”

“You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.”

“Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.”

“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

“Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.”