Jimmy Buffett Quotes

United States, Musician
December 25, 1946

James William Buffett is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including "Margaritaville" (ranked 234th on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century") and "Come Monday". He has a devoted base of fans known as "Parrotheads".

Also known as Actor, Songwriter, Author, Businessman

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

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

Jimmy Buffett
- History
- Blue
- Machines

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

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- Thinking
- Morning
- Fever
Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.

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

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- People
- Thinking
- Blame
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

Jimmy Buffett
- Time
- Stories
- Library
Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

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- Trying
- Vision
- Ocean
Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

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- Thinking
- Children
- May

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

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- Giving
- Beer
- Dinner
It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

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- Enough
- Drug
- Alcohol
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.

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- Wonder
- Window
- Warmth
You get religion as your hair turns grey.

Jimmy Buffett
- Religious
- Hair
- Religion
Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

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- Eyes
- Eye
- Animal
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
- People
- World
- Care

Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.

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- Up
- Mars
- Michigan
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.

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- Fate
- Victim
- Pirate
Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Jimmy Buffett
- Writing
- Song
- Songwriting
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.

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- Up
- Night
- Drug
Why don't we get drunk and screw?

Jimmy Buffett
- Why
- Drunk
- Beer
Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

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- Sin
- Dating
- Gin

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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- Life
- Giving
- Margarita
Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

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

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- Believe
- Rock
- Stills
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett
- Live
- Death
- Die