Quotes by John Mayer - Page 4

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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Imagination
Heart
Real
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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 / Musical Artist
Dream
Heart
Lost Love
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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 / Musical Artist
Guitar
Trying
Years
Time Guitar Me
Stick
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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 capitalize, it's done.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Done
Grammar
Heart
Punctuation
Spelling
Want
Capitalize
Good Way Done
Ladies
Supposed
Where
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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 / Musical Artist
Heart
Loneliness
Lonely
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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 / Musical Artist
Assuming
Emotion
Emotional
Needs
Writing
Currently
Experiencing
Just Be
Necessarily
Stake
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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
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Book
Knowing
Perfect
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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 / Musical Artist
Autumn
Heart
Summer
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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 / Musical Artist
Emotion
Feels
Guitar
Impact
People
Singing
Based
Impacts
Mouth
Sing
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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 / Musical Artist
Dating
Disappointment
Feels
Guilt
Nightmare
Persecution
Punishment
Reproach
Shame
Terrible
Woman
Equate
Even
Explain
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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 / Musical Artist
Famous
Important
People
Thinking
Willing
Based
Compromises
Famous Person
Psychologically
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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 / Musical Artist
Education
Running
Lying
Real
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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 / Musical Artist
Kind
Lips
Trying
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Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Care
Dork
Feelings
Liberating
Trying
Confident
Bold
Feeling
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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 / Musical Artist
Chance
Looks
Strong
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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 / Musical Artist
Being Silly
Compassionate
Curves
Giving
Next
Next Time
Silly
Stupid
Turns
Twists
Little
Time Me People
Time Stupid Me
Miss
Show
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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 / Musical Artist
Cameras
Dirty
Gauges
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Eye
Falling In Love
Heart
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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 / Musical Artist
Information
People
Secret
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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 / Musical Artist
Believable
Believe
Likeable
People
Singing
Thinking
Hope Believe I Believe
End Of The Day
Generally
Though
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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 / Musical Artist
Deluded
Names
People
Public Interest
Records
Thinking
Hope Me People
Public
Listener
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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!
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Ideas
People
Sorry
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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 / Musical Artist
Becoming
People
Play
Two
Life Learning Moment
Onstage
Streamlined
Thousands
Thousands Of People
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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 / Musical Artist
Couple
Guitar
Player
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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 sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Boxes
Color
Fancy
Missing
People
Most
Like
Really
Looking
Life Myself People
Myself
Box
Back
Crayons
Few
Got
Life Looking People
Though
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By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Morning
Pandora's Box
Saws
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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.'
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Dream
Girl
Hello
Slides
Sorry
Walks
Stool
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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 / Musical Artist
Bed
Blessing
High School
School
Staring
Wanted
Years
Life My Life School
Life My Life Never
Ceiling
High
Life My Life Blessing
Lay
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If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Amazing
Able
Half
People
Stage
Unbelievable
People Will Doing
Amazing People Doing
Hear
Last
Million
Million People
Tour
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Daughter
Continuum
Dark
Needed
Night
Daughters
Shot
Bought
Grammys
Recognized
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If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Morning
Book
Coffee
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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!'
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Girl
Color
Mean
Purple
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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!'
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Girl
Color
Mean
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Ideas
People
Thinking
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Space
Fire
Horny
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Guitar
Ideas
Play
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Library
Rights
Shrimp
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Guitar
Ideas
Next Day
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Hands
Talking
Understanding
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What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
America
Single Mom
Struggle
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Home
Moving
Smart
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Home
Character
Environment
Guy
Interesting
Social
Life Character Your
Life Home Your
Quite
Around
Bit
Between
Forth
Interview
Learned
My Life
Quite A Bit
Road
Studio
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Fall
Hurt
Pain
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Light
Lying
Self
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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!
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Song
Stress
Writing
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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.
John Mayer / Musical Artist
Character
Song
Writing
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