John Mayer Quotes

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

- John Mayer

Amazing, Doing, Half, Unbelievable

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

- John Mayer

Explain, Feels, Equate, Punishment

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

- John Mayer

Think, I Think, Based, Compromises

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

- John Mayer

My Life, Through, Bed, Ceiling

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

- John Mayer

Wedding, Jewelry, Ring, On And Off

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

- John Mayer

Mistakes, Wounds, About, Self-Inflicted

People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

- John Mayer

Mind, Want, Own, Responding

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

- John Mayer

Night, Like, Late-Night, Talk Show

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

- John Mayer

Learn, Continuum, Before, Grammys

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

- John Mayer

Singing, Think, I Think, Likeable

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

- John Mayer

Good, Want, Spelling, Ladies

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

- John Mayer

Deep, Stupid, Next, Next Time

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

- John Mayer

Fancy, Boxes, Though, Missing

I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.

- John Mayer

Happen, Feels, Based, Impacts

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

- John Mayer

Going, Playing, Seats, Surprised

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

- John Mayer

Game, Media, Quit, I Quit

I really don't want to be a hunk.

- John Mayer

Want, Really, Hunk

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

- John Mayer

Been, I Believe That, Misrepresented

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

- John Mayer

My Life, Studio, Very, Interview

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

- John Mayer

Magic, Words, Talking, Interview

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

- John Mayer

Sometimes, I Wish, Rained, Conversation

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

- John Mayer

Doing, More, Like, Dork

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

- John Mayer

Records, Part, Deluded, Public Interest

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

- John Mayer

Music, Fine, Provider, Manufacturer

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

- John Mayer

Addiction, Had, Recovering, Sober

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

- John Mayer

Never, Through, Been, Psychologically

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

- John Mayer

Failure, I Am, Hendrix, Defined

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

- John Mayer

Nature, Music, Pop, Whereas

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

- John Mayer

World, Own, Domestic, Trucks

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

- John Mayer

Pain, Other, Away, Crashes

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

- John Mayer

Never, Been, Walked, Table

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

- John Mayer

Think, Hiding, Still, Sleeve

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

- John Mayer

War, Part, Demeanor, Everyday

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

- John Mayer

Kind, Need, Some, Lyrics

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

- John Mayer

Musicians, Trying, Like, Jaded

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

- John Mayer

High School, Like, Crappy, In The End

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

- John Mayer

Like, Get, Recognized, Meteorologist

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

- John Mayer

Singer, Shock, Wanted, Songwriter

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

- John Mayer

Spoon, Use, Fork, Rapidly

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

- John Mayer

Better, Always, Other, Lines

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

- John Mayer

Want, Very, Very Early Age, Early Age

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

- John Mayer

My Life, Play, Becoming, Front

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

- John Mayer

Mother, Words, Trying, Impress

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

- John Mayer

Music, Brain, See, Hopefully

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

- John Mayer

Fly, Going, Demanding, Day And Age

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

- John Mayer

Everyone, Like, Very, Realize

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

- John Mayer

Alive, Musical, Came, Atlanta

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

- John Mayer

Away, Stool, Slides, Hello

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

- John Mayer

Release, Stick, Songs, Underground

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

- John Mayer

Song, Kind, Idea, Present

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

- John Mayer

Happen, Maybe, Accuse, Blues

I've never been a bad boy.

- John Mayer

Never, Bad, Been, Bad Boy

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

- John Mayer

Other, Concerned, About, Saying

I just like collaborating.

- John Mayer

Like, Just, Collaborating

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

- John Mayer

Work, Dating, Date, Nightmare

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

- John Mayer

My Own, Going, Everybody, Stranger

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

- John Mayer

England, Go, Makes, Certain

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

- John Mayer

Happy, Sometimes, Prepare, Certain

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

- John Mayer

Act, Years, Rather, Guitar

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

- John Mayer

Song, Could, Bags, Minute

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

- John Mayer

Music, Other, Almost, Turning

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

- John Mayer

Music, Possible, Accessible, Engineer

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

- John Mayer

Start, Honest, Then, Garbage

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

- John Mayer

Love, Clever, I Love, Forgot

I love being the center of attention.

- John Mayer

Love, Center, I Love, Attention

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

- John Mayer

Matter, Going, Earn

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

- John Mayer

Stage, Feels, Having, Performance

There's so many inspiring people out there.

- John Mayer

People, Out, Many, Inspiring

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

- John Mayer

Lost, Head, While, Sort

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

- John Mayer

America, Even, Icon

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

- John Mayer

Loved, Reasons, Ever, Somebody

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

- John Mayer

Bad, Ways, Affects, Choice

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

- John Mayer

Money, Person, Only, Bunch

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

- John Mayer

Learn, Will, Curve, Exactly

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

- John Mayer

My Life, Just One, Feels, Long Day

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

- John Mayer

Away, Everybody, Wanted, Direction

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

- John Mayer

Want, Go, Detach, Community

I lost my head for a little while.

- John Mayer

Head, Little, While, Lost

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

- John Mayer

Happy, My Life, Very, Aspects

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

- John Mayer

Me, Anybody, Telling

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

- John Mayer

Been, Given, Learned, Appreciate

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

- John Mayer

Success, How, Hits, React

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

- John Mayer

Change, Power, World, Values

My hits are not hits.

- John Mayer

Hits

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

- John Mayer

Thought, Never, Would, Cool

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