John Mayer Quotes

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?'

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

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell.

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.

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.

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

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.

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.

Waiting on the World to Change.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I've never been a bad boy.

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

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

I really don't want to be a hunk.

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

Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

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

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

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

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

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

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.

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.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

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

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

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