Top 100 John Mayer Quotes
#1. She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?
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#5. I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
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#7. I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.
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#8. I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
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#11. When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.
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#12. I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.
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#13. High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
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#14. There's so many inspiring people out there.
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#15. Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.
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#16. Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.
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#17. Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.
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#19. I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
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#20. Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.
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#21. I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.
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#22. When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak
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#26. 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.
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#27. Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.
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#28. I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.
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#30. I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
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#31. You love who you love, who you love
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#32. Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.
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#33. I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists
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#34. 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.'
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#35. There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
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#36. Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?
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#37. By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone ...
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on
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#38. Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good
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#39. Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
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#40. I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
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#41. And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.
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#42. Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn't follow their dreams, and don't want you to either.
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#43. All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.
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#44. No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.
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#45. Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.
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#46. I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.
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#47. Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
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#48. Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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.
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#52. If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.
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#53. The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.
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#54. Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
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#55. I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.
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#56. 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.
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#57. I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
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#58. I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.
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#59. 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.
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#60. Today I finally overcame tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame.
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#61. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.
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#62. It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
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#63. The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad ...
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#64. I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
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#65. I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.
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#66. Sometimes I get scared that I'm going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.
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#67. 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.
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#68. Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!!
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#69. Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
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#70. When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want.
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#71. Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
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#72. In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
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#73. How come everything I need always comes with batteries?
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#74. I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
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#75. I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
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#76. Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
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#77. I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band
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#78. 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!
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#79. I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
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#80. Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe
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#81. I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
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#82. Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
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#83. May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
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#84. You look so good it hurts sometimes.
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#85. My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.
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#86. They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.
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#87. 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.
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#88. Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.
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#89. I lost my head for a little while.
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#90. You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.
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#91. Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.
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#92. I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
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#93. This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.
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#96. I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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#97. I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.
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#98. I love being the center of attention.
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#99. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.
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#100. Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
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