Jimmy Buffett Quotations

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

People who think too much before they act don't act too much.

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

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

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

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

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.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

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.

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.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

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.

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

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

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

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

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

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.

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

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

Yes, Barometer was written in Key West and I did spend many hours at the library there. Every song on that album has a literary connection.

yes i own a whaler boat, it slides across the sea some folks say im a part of it i know its part of me

We had been talking to the Cubs for a long time about doing this,

I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

I first listened to Sirius' incredible programming in my car and boat,

Give me some words we can dance to,

Let me remind you: We are party people, and things will get better.

It was a call to arms, and we responded.

It's a jungle out there kiddies. Have a very fruitful day.

The message of this movie is not only that our kids are smarter than adults, but it's our world that they're going to inherit, and it's great to see activism at that early age.

I don't think there was one arrest. And everybody in the neighborhood made a ton of money.

I could go on for hours telling stories..but I guess youhad to be there

And now, you dress if you go. They looked like Deadheads with a little better wardrobe so that's how the name sort of originated.

You better lava me now or lava me not.

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

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.

I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning.

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!

[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."

Why don't we get drunk and screw?

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

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

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

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

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

Is it time for your medication or mine?

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

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

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

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

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

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

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

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.

Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

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

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

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

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

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

Cheeseburger in paradise!

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

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around...

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.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

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

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people "find it.

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

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.

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

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

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

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

Without geography you're nowhere.

The wino and I know the pain of back bustin'.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

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

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