Jimmy Buffett famous quotes

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Running #Enough

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?
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Alcohol #Drug #Mind

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Stars #Memories #Grief

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Simple #Keys #Laughing

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Smile #Wrinkles

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Fun #Party #Hunting

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

#Hippie #Redneck #Men

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Fun #Balance #Important

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

#Thinking #People #Too Much

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Work #Mistake #Done

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Inspiration #Ambition #Play

Be good & you will be lonesome. Be lonesome & you will be free.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Lonesome #Be Good

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Discovery #Land #Water

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

#Ignorance #Empathy #Apathy

Breathe in, breathe out, move on...
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Moving #Breathe

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Beautiful #Weather #Wish

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Drinking #Night #Alcohol

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Laughter #Laughing #Insane

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Life #Attitude #Giving

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Mother #Ocean #Heard

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

#Goodbye #Children #Philosophy

I still believe in rock and roll, it pays my bills.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Believe #Rocks #Rock And Roll

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

#Kings #Needs #Protection

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

#People #World #This World

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

#Sad #Pain #Work Out

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

#Love #Wave #Building

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

#Hate #Technology #Age

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Alcohol #Drug #Too Much

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Summer #Jobs #Kids

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

#Drinking #Men #Alcohol

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Ocean #Thinking #Arms

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Baseball #Usa #America

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

#Voice #Path #Helping

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Fear #May #Problem

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

#Albums #Expecting

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

#Keys #Sea #Heaven

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Inspirational #Sides #More Time

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

#Cute Life #Want #Ever After

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...
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Children #Wind #Play

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Insanity #Therapy #Bubbles

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Horse #Long #Waiting

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

#Adventure #Interesting #Life Is

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

#Morning #Sunday #Night

There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Fruitcake #Littles

My mother insisted that her children read.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Mother #Children

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Years #Two #Pirate

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

#Birthday #People #Age

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine...
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Beer #Oysters #Years

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

#Song #Writing #Songwriting

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Beach #Heaven

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Running #Attitude #Laughing

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Storm #Ships #Strange

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Yesterday #Long #Waiting

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Voyages #Made #Plans

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!
-- Jimmy Buffett

#People #Mad #Bakers

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

#Regret #Lying

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Weather #Followers #Bigs

Tonight I just need my guitar.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Guitar #Needs #Tonight

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Dream #Travel #Book

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Mother #Dream #Travel

Where's the church, who took the steeple, Religion's in the hands of some crazy ***** people, Television preachers with bad hair and dimples, The God's honest truth is, it's not that simple
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Honesty #Crazy #Simple

Truth is stranger than fishin.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Stranger #Truth Is

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Mind #Quitting

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.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Fun #Crazy #People

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Ocean #Soul

Cheeseburger in paradise!
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Paradise #Cheeseburger

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
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Honesty #Political #Suffering

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Time Will Tell #Only Time Will Tell #Time Well Spent

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets....
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Being Yourself #Regret #Play

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love......
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Lobster #Pastries

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!
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Goodbye #Jamaica #Sky

With you, I would walk anywhere
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Love #Friendship #Walks

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Heart #Texas #Soul

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

#Giving #Age #Pieces

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Friendship #Parrots

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.
-- Jimmy Buffett

#Anchors #Might #Toss