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

Jimmy Buffett

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Jimmy Buffett
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 25
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James William Buffett
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Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars.
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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
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
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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.
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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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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.
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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?
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The ocean has always been a salve to my soul.
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.
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It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.
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You get religion as your hair turns grey.
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I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!
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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
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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
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Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me.
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Breathe in, breathe out, move on.
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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.
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The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.
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Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.
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