Jimmy Buffett Quotes

The best plan is to have no plan.

I'm a guy who likes to make it up as he goes along.

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

I do not believe in planning.

I like things to be unpredictable.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.