John Mayer Quotes & Sayings

I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists — John Mayer

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

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

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it. — John Mayer

Sometimes I get scared that I'm going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad. — John Mayer

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. — John Mayer

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

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. — John Mayer

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. — John Mayer

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me. — John Mayer

By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed. — John Mayer

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

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

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

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. — John Mayer

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

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. — John Mayer

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for — John Mayer

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone ...
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on — John Mayer

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished. — John Mayer

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

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts. — John Mayer

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood — John Mayer

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul. — John Mayer

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

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

I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care. — John Mayer

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band — John Mayer

Today I finally overcame tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame. — John Mayer

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

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

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations — John Mayer

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason. — John Mayer

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again ... — John Mayer

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

I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above. — John Mayer

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

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

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

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

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel. — John Mayer

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them. — John Mayer

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well. — John Mayer

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. — John Mayer

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night. — John Mayer

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

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

I lost my head for a little while. — John Mayer

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

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting? — John Mayer

Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white. — John Mayer

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

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does. — John Mayer

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right? — John Mayer

Waiting on the World to Change, — John Mayer

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely. — John Mayer

I love being the center of attention. — John Mayer

Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell. — John Mayer

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

I've never been a bad boy. — John Mayer

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking. — John Mayer

If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book. — John Mayer

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's. — John Mayer

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

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

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't. — John Mayer

Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind — John Mayer

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

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me. — John Mayer

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

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody. — John Mayer

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't — John Mayer

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

I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself. — John Mayer

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. — John Mayer

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

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

When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want. — John Mayer

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something. — John Mayer

Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding
To a bride with a paper ring
And half of my heart is the part of a man
Who's never truly loved anything — John Mayer

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. — John Mayer

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. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type ... I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta! — John Mayer

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong. — John Mayer

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

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart. — John Mayer

I really don't want to be a hunk. — John Mayer

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw. — John Mayer

Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time. — John Mayer

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

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long ... I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song. — John Mayer

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

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

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it. — John Mayer

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak — John Mayer

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now. — John Mayer

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you ... Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do. — John Mayer

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday ... — John Mayer

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

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through. — John Mayer

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