Top 195 Quotes & Sayings by John Mayer - Page 2

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.

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.'

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

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

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 your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

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.

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

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.

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

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

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.

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

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.

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

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

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

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

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

My hits are not hits.

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

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

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

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 think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

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

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

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

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

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!'

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

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.

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.

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

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

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

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

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.

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.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

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

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.

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.

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.

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

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

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

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

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

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.

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.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

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.