John Mayer Quotes

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

~ John Mayer

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. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? 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

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

~ John Mayer

How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

~ John Mayer

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better put 'em in quotations

~ John Mayer

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

~ John Mayer

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

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

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

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

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

~ John Mayer

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

~ John Mayer

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

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

~ John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

~ 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

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

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

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

~ John Mayer

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

~ John Mayer

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

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

~ John Mayer