Top 150 John Mayer Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— John Mayer

2. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”

— John Mayer

3. “I am invincible, as long as I’m alive.”

— John Mayer

4. “I’m a mess of unfinished thoughts.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

7. “I love you more than songs can say, but I can’t keep running after yesterday...”

— John Mayer

8. “I know the heart of life is good.”

— John Mayer

9. “You can’t spell ‘developer’ without ‘devel.’”

— John Mayer

10. “It’s better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.”

— John Mayer

11. “I’m having the time of my life figuring out this next move.”

— John Mayer

12. “Who says I can’t be free from all of the things that I used to be?”

— John Mayer

13. “Fear is a friend who’s misunderstood.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

15. “I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

17. “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.”

— John Mayer

18. “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.”

— John Mayer

19. “I believe that my life’s gonna see the love I give returned to me.”

— John Mayer

20. “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.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

24. “I quit the media game. I’m out. I’m done.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

26. “Disappointment has a name, it’s heartbreak.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

28. “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.”

— John Mayer

29. “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 day.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

31. “Numb is the new deep.”

— John Mayer

32. “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...”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

34. “You look so good it hurts sometimes.”

— John Mayer

35. “They read all the books, but they can’t find the answers.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

37. “And 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.”

— John Mayer

38. “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.”

— John Mayer

39. “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.”

— John Mayer

40. “They say stay in the lines, but there’s always something better on the other side.”

— John Mayer

41. “Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind.”

— John Mayer

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.”

— John Mayer

43. “I’ve learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.”

— John Mayer

44. “Everybody is a stranger, but that’s the danger in going my own way.”

— John Mayer

45. “I’m someone who would like to act like I don’t care, but I care.”

— John Mayer

46. “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.”

— John Mayer

47. “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.”

— John Mayer

48. “So scared of getting older, I’m only good at being young.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

50. “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.”

— John Mayer