John Mayer Quotes
born 1977 United States
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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Also known as: John mayer, Mayer, John
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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.
I know if it was the Time 99, I would've been off the list.
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
Belief is a beautiful armor, but makes for the heaviest sword; like punching underwater, you never can hit who you're trying for.
I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
They do this democratic Disney thing that doesn’t belong to anybody.
Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.
I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death match between Ray Charles and Jessica Simpson.
I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
Absolutely, because during sex, I’m just going to run a filmstrip. I’m still masturbating.
The Playboy interview (2010)
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?
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.
Without the iPod, the digital music age would have been defined by files and folders instead of songs and albums. Though the medium of music has changed, the iPod experience has kept the spirit of what it means to be a music lover alive.
Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.
The Playboy interview (2010)
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 go, "No, I'm happy for you?" That's when it's really sad.
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.