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Quotes by John Mayer

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
– John Mayer
I can make the most tasteless reference at some point and then go into one of my most earnest songs of the repertoire.
– John Mayer
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
– John Mayer
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
– 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 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 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
I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life.
– 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
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
I'm not being trite. I'm not being a parody of myself, and in finding a new kind of color to adopt for myself, it's not this or that: it's singer-songwriter, but it's also blues guitar player, it's also comedian.
– John Mayer
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
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
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
It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it was written with the best of intentions.
– John Mayer
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
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
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
– 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
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
– 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
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
– John Mayer
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
– John Mayer
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
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
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
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
– John Mayer
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
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
– John Mayer
It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
– John Mayer
I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
– John Mayer
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
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'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
– John Mayer
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
– John Mayer
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
– 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
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
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
– 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
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
– 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