John Mayer Quotes - Page 5

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• If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

  John Mayer

  Goodbye, Giving, Might

  Song: Wheel, Album: Heavier Things

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• We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

  John Mayer

  Mean, Waiting, World

  "Song: Waiting on the World to Change (Continuum)". July 11, 2006.

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• Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

  John Mayer

  Mother, Trying, Favourite

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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

  Falling In Love, Heart, Eye

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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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Heart

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• I'm a good man with a good heart
  had a tough time, got a rough start
  But I finally learned to let it go.

  John Mayer

  Heart, Men, Tough Times

  Song: Shadow Days, Album: Born and Raised, 2012

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• There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

  John Mayer

  Soul, Sometimes, Pops

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• Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

  John Mayer

  Done, Numb

  Song: New Deep, Album: Heavier Things

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• I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

  John Mayer

  Pain, Car, People

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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

  People, Half, Able

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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

  Thinking, People, Important

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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

  Next Day, Guitar, Ideas

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• Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

  John Mayer

  Song, Horse, Past

  Esquire Magazine, November 1, 2004.

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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

  Thinking, Names, People

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• She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

  John Mayer

  Perfect, Rejection, Flawless

  Song: Comfortable

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• Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be?

  John Mayer

  Used, Used To Be, I Can

  Song: Who Says, Album: Battle Studies, 2009

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• You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

  John Mayer

  War, Everyday, Terrorism

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

  John Mayer

  Dream, Song, Writing

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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

  Smart, Moving, Home

  PLayboy Interview, February 10, 2010.

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• 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

  Talking, Magic, Interviews

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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

  Education, Running, Real

  Song: No Such Thing

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• 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

  Accountability, Deserve

  "John Mayer: Taylor Swift’s ‘Dear John’ Song ‘Humiliated Me’". www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2012.

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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

  Dirty, Cameras, Gauges

  "Nikon Podcast #3: Exclusive Interview with John Mayer". Interview Mark Ellwood, 2007.

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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

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

  John Mayer

  Mistake, Self, Tears

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