Top 195 Quotes & Sayings by John Mayer - Page 3

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

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.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!

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

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

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

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

I know the heart of life is good.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!

I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can insert a tampon. No, I do it because I want to take a brain bath. It's like a hot whirlpool for my brain, in a brain space that is 100 percent agreeable with itself.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

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.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

You look so good it hurts sometimes.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

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.

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.

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!

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

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

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.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

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.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

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.

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.

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

I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

Numb is the new deep.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

I'm a good man with a good heart had a tough time, got a rough start But I finally learned to let it go.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?

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

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

Waiting on the World to Change.