East Texas Quotes:

Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby, sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Sex, Crazy, Mean, East Texas, Metropolis

It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.

- Forest Whitaker

topic: Dream, Believe, Heart, East Texas

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

- Richard Land

topic: Cat, Grandmother, Aunt, East Texas

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

- Carroll Shelby

topic: Airplane, Thinking, Texas, East Texas

One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

- Billy Gibbons

source: "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

topic: Spring, Night, Texas, East Texas