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Volcano is the ninth studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and is his 11th overall. It was released on August 1, 1979 as his first album for MCA after its absorption of ABC Dunhill. The album and its title song are named for the then dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album in May 1979 at AIR Studios. (The studio was severely damaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989 and Soufrière Hills erupted again in 1995.) Additional recording was done at Quadrafonic Studios in Nashville Tennessee and Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The album is dedicated to Buffett's wife and his daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett, who was born just before its release. Songs All of the songs are written or co-written by Buffett. Chart performance Volcano reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart and number 13 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Three singles from the album charted including "Fins" (number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100; number 42 Adult Contemporary), "Volcano" (number 66 Hot 100; number 43 Adult Contemporary), and "Survive" (number 77 Hot 100).

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“The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years.”
— Aristotle, De mirac. oscult. 38; 833 a 16. Quoted in Arthur Fairbanks (ed. And trans.), The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), 79.
“[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.”
— Empedocles, fragment 52. In The Fragments of Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard, (1908), 35.
“A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.”
— Oliver Goldsmith, n Goldsmith’s Miscellaneous Works (1841), 90.
“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.”
— Sir William Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanoes (1774), 52.
“The real difficulty about vulcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.”
— , Earthquakes and Mountains, 2nd edition (1950), 187.
“It's tempting to go to the throat of the volcano to get the data, because if you do you're a hero ... It's a battle between your mind and your emotions. If your emotions win out, you can get yourself in a lot of trouble.”
— , quoted by Ron Russell in 'Column One: In pursuit of Deadly Volcanoes', Los Angeles Times (25 Jun 1991), an article about for three scientists that had died in a volcano eruption.

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“The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years.”
— Aristotle, De mirac. oscult. 38; 833 a 16. Quoted in Arthur Fairbanks (ed. And trans.), The First Philosophers of Greece (1898), 79.
“[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.”
— Empedocles, fragment 52. In The Fragments of Empedocles, translated by William Ellery Leonard, (1908), 35.
“A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.”
— Oliver Goldsmith, n Goldsmith’s Miscellaneous Works (1841), 90.
“If I was to establish a system, it would be, that Mountains are produced by Volcanoes, and not Volcanoes by Mountains.”
— Sir William Hamilton, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other Volcanoes (1774), 52.
“The real difficulty about vulcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.”
— , Earthquakes and Mountains, 2nd edition (1950), 187.
“It's tempting to go to the throat of the volcano to get the data, because if you do you're a hero ... It's a battle between your mind and your emotions. If your emotions win out, you can get yourself in a lot of trouble.”
— , quoted by Ron Russell in 'Column One: In pursuit of Deadly Volcanoes', Los Angeles Times (25 Jun 1991), an article about for three scientists that had died in a volcano eruption.

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