John Mayer Quotes (43 Quotes)


    People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.

    It makes you feel like you're on vacation. It's the kind of drink that should have an umbrella sticking out of it. It tastes great in the winter months.

    I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

    I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life.

    the trapper keeper is the genisis of OCD for my generation.


    And if you never stop when you wave goodbye, you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again. You just might wave hello again. And that's the way this wheel keeps working now.

    I'm not being trite. I'm not being a parody of myself, and in finding a new kind of color to adopt for myself, it's not this or that it's singer-songwriter, but it's also blues guitar player, it's also comedian.

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

    Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

    Scared of the world outside you should go explore, pull all the shades and wander the great indoors. Though lately I can't blame you, I have seent he world and sometimes I wish your room had room for two.

    Even if you think the flame has died, there's at least one lyric that'll hit that last hot spot, and then you'll find yourself as fed as you were the day you lied and said you never wanted to see her again,

    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.

    High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

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

    I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

    I can make the most tasteless reference at some point and then go into one of my most earnest songs of the repertoire.

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

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

    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'm thinking about coming out with a full body velour jumpsuit. No joke.If I get tired of playing music, I'll go home. I won't come out with a new flavor of ice cream.

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

    I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice Tea and I'm starting to look for the next closest rest stop.--On Settling down with a girl.

    I can't wait to figure out what wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be

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

    So what, so I've got a smile onBut it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head

    He doesn't think he should be on supervision. He thinks he's too good for it.

    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.

    What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.

    This is a song about talking to the person that you haven't even met yet. Maybe they're rolling around in the hay with someone else but, they're not as good as you'll be. You just gotta wait your turn. She's out there, he's out there. They're just learning what to contrast you against on the track Love Song for No One

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

    I support building a bridge large enough to handle the growth that has occurred and the growth that will occur in the future.

    There wasn't a ton of time to write this record but that's also good because there wasn't a ton of time to freak out either. So it was just about enough time to follow my instinct and put my instinct down ... Your first attempt, your first thumbprint on every song -- that's what you can hear on the record.

    I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

    I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists

    It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it was written with the best of intentions.

    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.

    The stellar track on the disc is the last, My Yard. ... We can stay up all night It's nothing fancy, just a little couch and me And conversation for your mind.

    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.

    I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

    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.

    Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type.. I'm like, hey girl, magenta and she's like, oh, you mean purple and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no - I want magenta

    We have an immediate and dire need for this. The board has voted already to go ahead with this.

    It seems like the other 20 people in the county know what is better for us than our own representatives.


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