Top 100 Jimmy Buffett Quotes
#1. I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love ...
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#3. Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.
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#4. People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.
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#5. I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.
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#6. Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.
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#7. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
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#8. Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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#10. Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
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#11. Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.
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#15. Later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.
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#16. If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached.
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#17. Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine ...
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#19. Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets ...
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#21. Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor
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#22. Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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#23. Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
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#25. Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.
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#28. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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#29. You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
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#30. It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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#31. Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo. But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie, how it got here I haven't a clue.
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#32. Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
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#33. I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
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#34. When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.
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#35. As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.
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#36. Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?
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#37. Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.
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#38. Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.
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#39. Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
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#40. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
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#41. 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
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#43. If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.
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#44. There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.
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#45. 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
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#46. I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.
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#47. Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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#48. I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.
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#49. I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
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#50. They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
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#51. Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.
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#52. I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
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#53. I recommend that you try a little mental floss.
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#54. Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
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#55. No we don't want a bucket of blood
Just a cup is all we could use
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#57. The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.
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#58. I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
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#59. I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.
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#61. 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?
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#62. Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.
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#63. I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
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#64. The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people find it.
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#65. I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
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#66. The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
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#68. 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
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#69. Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.
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#71. Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
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#72. Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.
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#73. And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.
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#74. Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.
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#75. 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.
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#76. We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.
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#77. 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.
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#78. 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.
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#79. At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
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#80. Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
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#81. I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
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#83. Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?
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#84. Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.
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#85. I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.
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#86. He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.
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#87. Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
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#88. It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head ...
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#89. 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!
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#90. Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun ... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.
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#91. If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
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#92. When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
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#93. [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."
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#96. I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
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#98. Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.
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#100. I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.
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