Jimmy Buffett Quotes

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.

You better lava me now or lava me not.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

With you, I would walk anywhere

Is it time for your medication or mine?

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

My mother insisted that her children read.

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

Without geography you're nowhere.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.