Jimmy Buffett Quotes

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine ...

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

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

Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...

Cheeseburger in paradise!

Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

She said 'a tattoo is a badge of validation'.
But the truth of the matter is far more revealing.
It's a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.

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

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out.
What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

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

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

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 still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.

You better lava me now or lava me not.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

Come back, come back, back to Jamaica
Don't you know we made a big mistaika
We would be so sad if you told us goodbye
And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

I come from the ocean with songs of the sea
No lesson for learning, just play upon me
Now go make your music in lands near and far
Orion protects you wherever you are

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

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love ...

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.

Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

Some people never find it
Some only pretend
But I just want to live
Happily ever after, now and then

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

When you go to the movies these days, you know they try to sell you this jumbo drink, 8 extra ounces of watered down cherry coke for an extra 25 cents. I don't want it. I don't want that much organziation in my life. I don't want other people thinking for me. I want my Junior Mints. Where did the Junior Mints go in the movies? I don't want a 12 lb. Nestle's crunch for 25 dollars. I want Junior Mints.We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

I recommend that you try a little mental floss.

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

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

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.

There's something missing in the music industry today ... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.

And there's that one particular harbor
Sheltered from the wind
Where the children play on the shore each day
And all are safe within ...

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

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

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

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

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees ...

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

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

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.