Top 100 Quotes About Jimmy Buffett
#1. The parrot eyed me cautiously, like he was forming a vague memory of unhappier times, before Jimmy Buffett and ganja.
"Noisy bastard," he decided.
Rick Riordan
#3. I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.
Andy Kindler
#4. I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
Kid Rock
#5. We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.
John Mellencamp
#7. My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.
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#8. I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love ...
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#10. Some of it's magic, some of it's tragic, but I've had a good life all the way.
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#11. Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
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#12. People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.
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#13. I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.
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#16. 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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#17. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
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#18. Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
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#19. I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
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#20. I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases ...
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#22. Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.
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#23. You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.
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#24. Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.
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#25. 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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#26. I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached.
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#30. Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine ...
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#31. This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.
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#32. We are the people our parents warned us about.
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#34. Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets ...
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#36. Find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor
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#37. It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.
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#38. What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?
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#39. 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.
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#40. Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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#42. Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
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#43. Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
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#44. 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
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#46. 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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#47. Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.
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#48. Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
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#49. Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
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#50. My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.
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#51. 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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#52. Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.
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#53. 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 ...
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#54. We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
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#55. Life is a journey that's measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.
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#56. It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
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#57. 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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#58. It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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#59. 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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#60. Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
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#61. I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
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#62. I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.
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#66. It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
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#67. One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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#68. Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?
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#69. Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.
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#70. I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.
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#73. Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.
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#74. 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?
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#75. 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.
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#76. Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
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#77. I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
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#79. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.
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#80. Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends.
If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
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#81. 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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#82. I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
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#85. If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.
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#86. The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.
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#88. 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.
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#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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.
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#92. 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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#93. Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
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#94. 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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#95. 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.
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#96. I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
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#97. Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
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#98. 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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#99. 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.
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