Jimmy Buffett Quotes - Page 7

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

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

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

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

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

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

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

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

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

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

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

[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."

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

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.

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

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

Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

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

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!

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

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.

We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!

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.