Jimmy Buffett quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

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

Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

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

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

We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

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

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

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

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

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don't we get drunk and screw?

We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

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!

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

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

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.

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.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

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

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

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

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.

Cheeseburger in paradise!

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...

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

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

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

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

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

I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.

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

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

It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

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.

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

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

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

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

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

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

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

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

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.

I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

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

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

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

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

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.

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

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

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?

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

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

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

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

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.

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

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

If there's a heaven for me, I'm sure it has a beach attached.

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

With you, I would walk anywhere

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

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.

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

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

Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.

I'm growing older, but not up.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on...

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

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.

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

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

The weather is here Wish you were beautiful.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

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

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.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

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

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

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.

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