Jimmy Buffett Quotes - Page 4

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I don't get tired of playing "Margaritaville". It's paid my bills for years.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

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

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

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