110+ Jimmy Buffett Quotes On Family, Getting Older And Summer

Jimmy Buffett is an American singer-songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads" who attend his concerts and other events. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jimmy Buffett on life, love, family.

Top 10 Jimmy Buffett Quotes

1. Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
2. 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.
3. Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.
9. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
10. Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Jimmy Buffett Image Quotes

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

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

Without geography you're nowhere. — Jimmy Buffett

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

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

I'm growing older, but not up. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

Jimmy Buffett Short Quotes

• Without geography you're nowhere.
• Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.
• Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.
• Indecision may or may not be my problem.
• Only time will tell if it was time well-spent
• I'm growing older, but not up.
• I made a deal with the devil for a whole lot of money.
• The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.
• Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
• I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Life

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

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

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear. — Jimmy Buffett

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing. — Jimmy Buffett

I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases. — Jimmy Buffett

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. — Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Love

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

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

My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don't love Jesus. It's that kind of morning. — Jimmy Buffett

Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say - Someday, I will. — Jimmy Buffett

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

With you, I would walk anywhere — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Work

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. — Jimmy Buffett

If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night. — Jimmy Buffett

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Friends

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

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

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

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Age

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. — Jimmy Buffett

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett

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

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Humorous

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer. — Jimmy Buffett

You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile — Jimmy Buffett

Fun is about as good a habit as there is. — Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Insane

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

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. — Jimmy Buffett

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

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

Is it time for your medication or mine? — Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett Quotes About Live

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

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then. — Jimmy Buffett

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me. — Jimmy Buffett

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

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer. — Jimmy Buffett

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

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go. — Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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. — Jimmy Buffett

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 — Jimmy Buffett

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

I'm growing older, but not up. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cheeseburger in paradise! — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jimmy Buffett

Lights are glowing in the palm trees. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

Tonight I just need my guitar. — Jimmy Buffett

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world. — Jimmy Buffett

Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot. — Jimmy Buffett

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

This morning I shot six holes in my freezer. I think I've got cabin fever. — Jimmy Buffett

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. — Jimmy Buffett

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate. — Jimmy Buffett

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment. — Jimmy Buffett

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

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan. — Jimmy Buffett

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. — Jimmy Buffett

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

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree. — Jimmy Buffett

Quitting doesn't enter my mind. — Jimmy Buffett

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me. — Jimmy Buffett

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

Why don't we get drunk and screw? — Jimmy Buffett

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor — Jimmy Buffett

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

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. — Jimmy Buffett

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

Life Lessons by Jimmy Buffett

1. Jimmy Buffett's life is a testament to the power of following your dreams and never giving up. He has achieved success in many different fields, from music to business, and his determination and hard work are inspiring.
2. Jimmy Buffett also emphasizes the importance of living life to the fullest and enjoying the ride. He has embraced the idea of living a 'Margaritaville' lifestyle and encourages others to do the same.
3. Finally, Jimmy Buffett's music and lyrics serve as a reminder to be kind and generous to others. He has used his platform to advocate for various causes and to spread the message of peace and love.