John Mayer Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

  John Mayer

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Song: Daughters

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

  John Mayer

  Goodbye, Running, Song

  Song: All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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

  John Mayer

  Song, Writing, Order

• Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

  John Mayer

  Song, Horse, Past

  Esquire Magazine, November 1, 2004.

• 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

  Song, Character, Writing

• 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

  Song, Stress, Writing

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

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

• 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, Home, Records

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