Quotes from Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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.

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

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.

Lights are glowing in the palm trees.

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.

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.

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.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

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

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