John Mayer Quotes

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

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

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

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

I know the heart of life is good. ~ John Mayer

But this is such a "Wheel" moment. That song rocks. The best part is where John Mayer says how our connections are permanent, how if you drift apart from someone there's always a chance you can be part of their life again. How everything comes back around again. ~ Susane Colasanti

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

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

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life. ~ 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

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

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

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute. ~ John Mayer

I think I'd be pretty star struck over John Mayer. I'm a big fan of his music, and I think he's great. ~ Sterling Knight

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

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

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

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

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing. ~ John Mayer

You love who you love, who you love ~ 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

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

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

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

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs. ~ John Mayer

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

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe ~ John Mayer

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

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

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

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

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

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life. ~ John Mayer

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

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does. ~ 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

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

There's so many inspiring people out there. ~ 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

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

I love, love, love John Mayer. He's incredible. I love all of his records and even his John Mayer Trio stuff. ~ Shane Harper

I just like collaborating. ~ John Mayer

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992. ~ John Mayer

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

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done! ~ John Mayer

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from. ~ John Mayer

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun. ~ John Mayer

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

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

Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. ~ John Mayer

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you. ~ John Mayer

I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go. ~ John Mayer

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

What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life. ~ John Mayer

My hits are not hits. ~ 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

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

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been. ~ 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

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

It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get burned. ~ Susane Colasanti

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

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

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

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be. ~ Gini Koch

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. ~ 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

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive. ~ 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

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

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

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood ~ John Mayer

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

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have. ~ John Mayer

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

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

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed. ~ 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

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn't follow their dreams, and don't want you to either. ~ John Mayer

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed. ~ 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

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul. ~ 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

John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music. ~ Halston Sage

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. ~ John Mayer

I love being the center of attention. ~ John Mayer

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

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers. ~ 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

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible. ~ John Mayer

Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!! ~ John Mayer

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

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

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do. ~ 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