Top 150 John Mayer Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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?’”

— John Mayer

102. “I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.”

— John Mayer

103. “How come everything I need always comes with batteries?”

— John Mayer

104. “A man’s got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

106. “I’m not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people’s secrets pretty well. Unless they’re really good and people deserve to hear them. And I’ll disseminate the information accordingly.”

— John Mayer

107. “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 am not currently experiencing necessarily.”

— John Mayer

108. “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 a nightmare.”

— John Mayer

109. “I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I’m singing. It comes down to being believable. You don’t have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.”

— John Mayer

110. “I’m trying everything I can not to be jaded ’cause I don’t like jaded musicians.”

— John Mayer

111. “Atlanta’s my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.”

— John Mayer

112. “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.”

— John Mayer

113. “I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I’ve never been sinister.”

— John Mayer

114. “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.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

116. “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.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

118. “I like giving people something they don’t want to miss the next time. It’s a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

120. “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.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

122. “Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.”

— John Mayer

123. “Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.”

— John Mayer

124. “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?”

— John Mayer

125. “There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.”

— John Mayer

126. “Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.”

— John Mayer

127. “If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don’t have that kind of time, so I’d much rather stick to playing guitar.”

— John Mayer

128. “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.”

— John Mayer

129. “I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.”

— John Mayer

130. “I’ve never been a bad boy.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

133. “I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.”

— John Mayer

134. “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.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

136. “I’m very happy in all aspects of my life.”

— John Mayer

137. “I am an architect of days that have not happened yet.”

— John Mayer

138. “Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.”

— John Mayer

139. “I’m not an icon. Not even in America.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

142. “I’m getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I’m learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.”

— John Mayer

143. “It’s so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”

— John Mayer

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

— John Mayer

145. “I’m a good music provider, and I’m fine with that. I’m a quality music manufacturer.”

— John Mayer

146. “I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

— John Mayer

147. “There’s a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.”

— John Mayer

148. “When you do an interview with me, you’re talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There’s no magic in my words, it’s just me talking.”

— John Mayer

149. “I’m not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.”

— John Mayer

150. “My hits are not hits.”

— John Mayer