Top 50 John Mayer Quotes

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

I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

It’s very liberating when you finally realize it’s impossible to make everyone like you.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My hits are not hits.

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.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I’m trying everything I can not to be jaded ’cause I don’t like jaded musicians.

Atlanta’s my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

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

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

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.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that’s the danger in going my own way.

It’s so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

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.

I’m a good music provider, and I’m fine with that. I’m a quality music manufacturer.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I just like collaborating.

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.

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

I’m not an icon. Not even in America.

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

I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’

They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.

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.

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.

I feel strikingly domestic. We’re in our own world with two busses and trucks.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

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.

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.

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

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

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

I’ve never been a bad boy.

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

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.

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

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don’t have that kind of time, so I’d much rather stick to playing guitar.

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.

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