Kinky Friedman is an American songwriter, humorist, country singer, novelist, columnist, and a politician. He showed great interest in music since his childhood and formed his first band called the ‘King Arthur & the Carrots’ during his college. After graduation, he joined the ‘United States Peace Corps’ as a teacher, and co-founded a band named ‘Kinky Friedman and The Texas Jewboys’. This band collaborated with other famous musicians to make rock music, and this helped Friedman to become popular as a western singer. He came out with his first album titled ‘Sold American’ which was followed by his self-titled album. His songs like ‘Ride ‘Em Jewboy’ reflected his sense of social responsibility as they conveyed some important social messages in a jovial manner. Later when his music career witnessed a downfall he turned towards writing. He wrote detective novels and came out with his first novel ‘Greenwich Killing Time’ which was well-appreciated by the masses. This encouraged him to further write sixteen more novels to nurture his reputation as a novelist. He even aspired to become a politician and contested to become the Governor of Texas but was unsuccessful. Here is a compilation of quotes and sayings by this multi-faceted artist. These quotes and sayings have been excerpted from the vast sea of his work. Read on the famous thoughts and quotations by Kinky Friedman on fiction, detective, motivation, passion and myths.
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.
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.