Top 150 Jimmy Buffett Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Whatever thrills you, anything you love to do, just say – Someday, I will.”

— Jimmy Buffett

52. “Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I’ll be fine...”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

54. “If I don’t die by Thursday, I’ll be roaring Friday night.”

— Jimmy Buffett

55. “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

56. “Life is a journey that’s measured not in miles or years but in experiences, and the route your life takes is built not of roads but of songs.”

— Jimmy Buffett

57. “I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

59. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

60. “If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.”

— Jimmy Buffett

61. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

62. “While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don’t bend.”

— Jimmy Buffett

63. “Whether it’s a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it’s writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.”

— Jimmy Buffett

64. “It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”

— Jimmy Buffett

65. “I’m getting old, don’t wear underwear, and I don’t go to church.”

— Jimmy Buffett

66. “I’ve always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like ‘Come Monday’ is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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67. “We’re just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.”

— Jimmy Buffett

68. “I have been drunk now for over two weeks.”

— Jimmy Buffett

69. “Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”

— Jimmy Buffett

70. “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

71. “My mother insisted that her children read.”

— Jimmy Buffett

72. “I’d like to be a jellyfish, ’cause jellyfish don’t pay rent.”

— Jimmy Buffett

73. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

74. “Truth is stranger than fishin.”

— Jimmy Buffett

75. “Cheeseburger in paradise!”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

77. “I recommend that you try a little mental floss.”

— Jimmy Buffett

78. “I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

80. “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

81. “I just thank God I don’t live in a trailer.”

— Jimmy Buffett

82. “Where it all ends I can’t fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.”

— Jimmy Buffett

83. “I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases...”

— Jimmy Buffett

84. “The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.”

— Jimmy Buffett

85. “Any manual labor I’ve done was purely by mistake.”

— Jimmy Buffett

86. “I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.”

— Jimmy Buffett

87. “I’m going back to my parrot head friends.”

— Jimmy Buffett

88. “Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can’t be me in the gorilla disguise.”

— Jimmy Buffett

89. “Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

91. “Barmaid, bring a pitcher, another round of brew. Honey, why don’t we get drunk and screw?”

— Jimmy Buffett

92. “If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.”

— Jimmy Buffett

93. “There’s a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us.”

— Jimmy Buffett

94. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

96. “When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.”

— Jimmy Buffett

97. “It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.”

— Jimmy Buffett

98. “I’m a big follower and reactor to weather.”

— Jimmy Buffett

99. “One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

— Jimmy Buffett

100. “I’m growing older but not up, my metabolic rate is pleasantly stuck. Let the hands of time blow over my head, I’d rather die while I’m living, then live while I’m dead...”

— Jimmy Buffett