John Mayer Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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

  John Mayer

  Mistake, Self, Tears

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

  John Mayer

  Romantic, Goodnight, Dream

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

  John Mayer

  Reality, Soul, Might

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• I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

  John Mayer

  Spoons, Use, Enough

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!

  John Mayer

  Sorry, Ideas, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  John Mayer

  Art, Media, Names

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• My hits are not hits.

  John Mayer

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• 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

  Seats

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• 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

  Someday, Lifetime, Selling

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• Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

  John Mayer

  Underestimate

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• There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

  John Mayer

  People, England, Certain

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

  John Mayer

  People, Done, Charity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

  John Mayer

  Lovers

  Song: Friends, Lovers or Nothing, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• 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

  Daughter, Dark, Night

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• I've never been a bad boy.

  John Mayer

  Boys, Bad Boy

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

  John Mayer

  Addiction, Sober, Recovering

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• I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

  John Mayer

  Meteorologists, Locals

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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