Quotes By Jimmy Buffett

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

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

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.

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.

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

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

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.

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

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

My mother insisted that her children read.

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

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

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

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

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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

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

We are the people our parents warned us about.