Top 150 Jimmy Buffett Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “There’s damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

104. “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

105. “Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.”

— Jimmy Buffett

106. “Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we’re both beasts.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

109. “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

110. “We’re wanted men, we’ll strike again, but first let’s have a beer.”

— Jimmy Buffett

111. “The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.”

— Jimmy Buffett

112. “We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.”

— Jimmy Buffett

113. “You’ve been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he’s a little smart for you to fool.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

115. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

116. “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

117. “So I’ll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach.”

— Jimmy Buffett

118. “I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

120. “I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.”

— Jimmy Buffett

121. “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.”

— Jimmy Buffett

122. “Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.”

— Jimmy Buffett

123. “I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.”

— Jimmy Buffett

124. “I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I’ve promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I’ll work at my own pace.”

— Jimmy Buffett

125. “I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.”

— Jimmy Buffett

126. “I know I should be leaving this climate, I’ve got a verse, but can’t rhyme it.”

— Jimmy Buffett

127. “The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don’t tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.”

— Jimmy Buffett

128. “If life gives you limes make margaritas.”

— Jimmy Buffett

129. “My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I’d dream about expensive cars.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

131. “Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett

133. “Pickup’s washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.”

— Jimmy Buffett

134. “Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.”

— Jimmy Buffett

135. “Never did I think that I became family entertainment.”

— Jimmy Buffett

136. “That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.”

— Jimmy Buffett

137. “Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.”

— Jimmy Buffett

138. “Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.”

— Jimmy Buffett

139. “I can’t fax you my love, I can’t email my heart.”

— Jimmy Buffett

140. “The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.”

— Jimmy Buffett

141. “Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.”

— Jimmy Buffett

142. “Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.”

— Jimmy Buffett

143. “What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?”

— Jimmy Buffett

144. “Nobody else cares about you at the beginning of your career except you-and, of course, your mother. Your mother is there because that is what mothers do.”

— Jimmy Buffett

145. “The wino and I know the pain of back bustin’.”

— Jimmy Buffett

146. “You get religion as your hair turns grey.”

— Jimmy Buffett

147. “We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!”

— Jimmy Buffett

148. “Tell me where are the flashbacks they all warned us would come?”

— Jimmy Buffett

149. “I ain’t no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.”

— Jimmy Buffett

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

— Jimmy Buffett