John Mayer Quotes


"Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way."
- John Mayer
(Related: Danger)

"Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain."
- John Mayer
(Related: Music, People)

"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night."
- John Mayer
(Related: Night, Talk)

"I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks."
- John Mayer
(Related: World)

"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
(Related: People, Hope, Being, Day, End, Singing)

"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
(Related: Time, People, Being, Deep, Giving, Silly, Want)

"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
(Related: Emotion)

"I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve."
- John Mayer
"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
(Related: Life, People, Learning, Play)

"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
- John Mayer
(Related: End, School)

"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
(Related: People, Day, Emotion, Guitar, Singing, Want)

"Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been."
- John Mayer
(Related: Deep, Old, Talk)

"People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them."
- John Mayer
(Related: Time, People, Heart, Mind, Musicians, Want)

"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
(Related: Conversation, Day, Talk, Weather)

"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