Jimmy Buffett Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

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

Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

You better lava me now or lava me not.

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.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will.

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

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

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.

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 got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

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

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

Tonight I just need my guitar.

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

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

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.

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

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

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

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

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

Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.