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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

  Song, Stress, Writing

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

  John Mayer

  Males, Fans, Female

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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

  School, Blessing, Years

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

  John Mayer

  Education, Book, Answers

  Song: No Such Thing

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

  John Mayer

  Heart, Half, Situation

  Song: Half of My Heart, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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

  John Mayer

  Real, Black And White, Plot

  Song: No Such Thing

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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

  Girl, Dream, Sorry

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• Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

  John Mayer

  Love, Relationship, Disappointment

  Song: Heartbreak Warfare, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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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

  Couple, Player, Guitar

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• 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

  Real, Heart, Imagination

  Song: Half of My Heart, Album: Battle Studies

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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

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

  John Mayer

  Home, Atlanta, Musical

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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

  Hands, Talking, Understanding

  Esquire Magazine, in the column "The Resident Rock Star: JOHN MAYER", July 1, 2004.

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

  John Mayer

  Clever, People, Quests

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

  John Mayer

  Alcohol, Drug, Wish

  Song: Sucker

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

  John Mayer

  Care, I Care, I Don't Care

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

  John Mayer

  Moving, Next Move, Contemplation

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• 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.

  John Mayer

  Aspect, Very Happy

  "John Mayer Talks Katy Perry Romance: ‘I’m Quite Happy’", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• 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

  Games, Play, Numbers

  Song: Stop This Train, Album: Continuum, 2006

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• I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

  John Mayer

  Tables, Restaurants

  Playboy Interview, February 10, 2010.

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• Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

  John Mayer

  People, Brain, Music Is

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• 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.

  John Mayer

  Summer, Guitar, Media

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• The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

  John Mayer

  Philosophy, Moving, Thinking

  Song: Love Soon, Album: Inside Wants Out

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

  John Mayer

  Needs, Saying No, Choke

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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

  Guitar, Play, Ideas

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