Jimmy Buffett Quotes (50 Quotes)


    I love a great show. This is a great show. This is the circus coming to town and it's great to see (Glenn) do that,

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

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

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

    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.



    Buffett connected with Goodman through their shared sense of humor and love of baseball. They were folk music's version of the Gas House Gang. When I saw him perform, it struck a chord with me that not only was he a better guitar player than I was, but he was a solo act with a sense of humor, ... Singer-songwriter Gamble Rogers was another guy back in those days we both loved. A lot of times you see people who are funny onstage and don't care to be funny offstage. It's part of their act. Stevie was funny on or off the stage. And he's the first one who took me to a Cubs game.


    Yes, Barometer was written in Key West and I did spend many hours at the library there. Every song on that album has a literary connection.

    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.

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

    Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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

    And now, you dress if you go. They looked like Deadheads with a little better wardrobe so that's how the name sort of originated.

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

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

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



    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.

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

    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.

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

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

    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.


    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.

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



    We had been talking to the Cubs for a long time about doing this,



    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.

    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.

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

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

    It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

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

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

    I lost it. It was a whole day where I was emotionally connected to the whole thing. I did that song last year in New Orleans with New Orleans piano player Henry Butler.

    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.

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



    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

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



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


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