John Mayer Quotes - Page 5

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Tough Times

  Song: Shadow Days, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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

  John Mayer

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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

  John Mayer

  Soul, Sometimes, Pops

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• I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.

  John Mayer

  Care, I Care, I Don't Care

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

  John Mayer

  Done, Numb

  Song: New Deep, Album: Heavier Things

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• 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

  People, Half, Able

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• 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, Car, People

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Important

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• 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

  Games, Play, Numbers

  Song: Stop This Train, Album: Continuum, 2006

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• 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

  Next Day, Guitar, Ideas

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• 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.

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• 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

  Thinking, Names, People

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

  John Mayer

  Perfect, Rejection, Flawless

  Song: Comfortable

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• 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, Everyday, Terrorism

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• Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

  John Mayer

  Used, Used To Be, I Can

  Song: Who Says, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• 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

  Summer, Guitar, Media

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

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

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• 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

  Talking, Magic, Interviews

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• 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

  Smart, Moving, Home

  PLayboy Interview, February 10, 2010.

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• 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

  Education, Running, Real

  Song: No Such Thing

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• 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

  Accountability, Deserve

  "John Mayer: Taylor Swift’s ‘Dear John’ Song ‘Humiliated Me’". www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Dirty, Cameras, Gauges

  "Nikon Podcast #3: Exclusive Interview with John Mayer". Interview Mark Ellwood, 2007.

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• 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

  Guitar, Impact, People

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• 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

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

  John Mayer

  Birthday, Age, Looks

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