Jimmy Buffett Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

With you, I would walk anywhere

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fun is about as good a habit as there is.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Without geography you're nowhere.

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

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

Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

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

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.

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

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

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

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

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

I'm growing older, but not up.

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

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.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

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

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

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.

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

The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.

Breathe in, breathe out, move on.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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