Best Jim Croce Quotes & Sayings

My only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend, never really was a friend at all. I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less. Lost my ideas in that long tunnel of time. And I've turned inside out and around about and back and then found myself right back where I started again — Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day — Jim Croce

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here. — Jim Croce

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same. — Jim Croce

Borrowing a line from Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," Watts dubbed Ritter the Junkyard Dog - and, ever the literalist, gave him a dog collar and junk cart. — David Shoemaker

In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything. — Paul Stookey

After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are. — Jim Croce

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life. — Jim Croce

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was genius. — Jim Croce

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me. — Jim Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice. — Jim Croce

If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you. — Jim Croce

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind. — Jim Croce

Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song. — Jim Croce

He cast his eyes upon her and the trouble soon began, cause Leroy Brown learned a lesson about messing with the wife of a jealous man. — Jim Croce

Lost my ideals in that tunnel of time. — Jim Croce

She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that. — Jim Croce

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain — Jim Croce

He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog. — Jim Croce

Nobody loves a fat girl, but oh how a fat girl can love. — Jim Croce

I've overcome the blow, I've learned to take it well. I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels. — Jim Croce

Liz [Gillies] doesn't really listen to anything new, besides Adele, Ariana Grande, and stuff like that. She loves '70s music and old '60s songs. She loves songwriters from the '70s that I hate, like Jim Croce and James Taylor, and she loves Stevie Nicks and old jazz classics. — Denis Leary

I was searching all the time for something that I'd never lost or left behind. — Jim Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you really dig it, do it twice. — Jim Croce

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with. — Jim Croce

Well, you don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind. You don't pull on the mask of old Lone Ranger and you don't mess around with Jim. — Jim Croce

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius. — Jim Croce

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you. — Jim Croce

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am. — Jim Croce

Moving ahead, so life won't pass me by. — Jim Croce