The Best Jimmy Buffett quotes

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

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind. — Jimmy Buffett

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend. — 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

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. — Jimmy Buffett

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

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it. — 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

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

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

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

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

People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If life gives you limes, make margaritas. — 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

Life is so much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. — 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 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. — 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

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

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

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

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

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all going to 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

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

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man. — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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

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

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people ‘find it. — 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

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

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