John Mayer Quotes

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• 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…
• Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
• Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.
• 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.
• You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.
• 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…
• High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
• Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
• I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
• 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…
• 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,'…
• I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's…
• I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.
• You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
• Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
• Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
• 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…
• 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.…
• I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
• Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

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