John Mayer

Quotations

  • “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

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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

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  • “It’s so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.” -John Mayer

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  • “Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?” -John Mayer

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  • “There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.” -John Mayer

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  • “There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.” -John Mayer

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  • “It’s almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.” -John Mayer

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “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…

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  • “You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.” -John Mayer

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  • “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

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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

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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

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  • “Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.” -John Mayer

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “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

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  • “I’ve never done anything because I thought it would look cool.” -John Mayer

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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

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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

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  • I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. – John Mayer

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