Quotes By Jimmy Buffett

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.

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

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

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.

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