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You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Noses
Smart
Thumbs
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Fate
Order
Years
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Honesty
Political
Suffering
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If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Insane
Laugh
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Bakers
Mad
People
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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...
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Play
Wind
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If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Laughing
Laughter
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Discovery
Land
Water
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Instinct
Pace
Pacing
Reading
Song
Years
Years Ago
Concert
Performance
Pleasing
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Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Lying
Philosophy
Regret
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Peace
Paris
Special
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Motivational
Baseball
Cathedrals
Europe
Gothic
Parks
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Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Dangerous World
Fun
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There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Industry
Missing
Missing You
Music Industry
Song
Today
Fed
Product
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It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Enough
Reason
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Care
Careers
Mother
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And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
New Orleans
Spots
Writing
Orleans
Planet
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Monday
Song
Writing
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Wise
Self
Smart
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Friendship
Love
Father
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Long
Waiting
Yesterday
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Come back, come back, back to Jamaica Don't you know we made a big mistaika We would be so sad if you told us goodbye And we promise not to shoot you out of the sky!
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Goodbye
Jamaica
Sky
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As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Travel
Book
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Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Humor
Creativity
Luck
Thinking
Success Your Me
Instincts
Too
Follows
Situations
Tight
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
School
Thinking
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Alcohol
Drug
Mind
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Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Pain
Song
Swings
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Running
Attitude
Laughing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Crazy
Honesty
Simple
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Keys
Long
Simple
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Horizon
Looks
Wonder
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Country
Country Singer
Holiday
Moved
Nashville
Pops
Years Ago
Bar
First Thing
Singer
Has-Been
Inn
The First Thing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Jobs
Kids
Summer
Consider
Dreamed
Maintain
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Ambition
Inspiration
Play
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Inspirational
Horse
Long
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Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Character
Crazy
Islands
New Orleans
Roots
Stuff
Uniqueness
West
Since
Island
Logically
Orleans
Places
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Night
Two
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Self
Song
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Hate
Mother
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[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Numbers
Sea
Writing
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
Ocean
Records
Thinking
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Our Time
Singers
Spotlight
Stores
Years
Time Business Music
Business Side
Singer Songwriter
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Ocean
Travel
Mother
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Friendship
Blue
Crazy
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Dark
Thinking
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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.
Jimmy Buffett / Singer-Songwriter
Grief
Memories
Stars
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