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Quotes By Jimmy Buffett

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Jimmy Buffett

Dec 25, 1946 - Sep 01, 2023

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

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

I'm growing older, but not up.

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

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

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.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

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

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.

Maybe it's all too simple for the big brains to figure it out. What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about?

And if you do decide to wander, please leave a tiny bit of room in your heart for me. For if I live in your hearts, I really have not died.

As a pilot I know, that if you are flying from point a to point b and a big storm blocks your way, you don't just barrel on through. You either land or do a 180 and go back to point a.

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

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

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

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

Changes in lattitude. Changes in attitude.

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

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

The only thing that is still free in this world is religion, which is why a lot of people 'find it.'