John Mayer Quotes

14 quotations by John Mayer

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.

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.

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

It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it was written with the best of intentions.

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.

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.

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.

I think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life.

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.

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.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

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

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

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