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John Mayer [1977-0] American

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer-songwriter

John Clayton Mayer is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Fairfield.

Dating, Hope, Learning, Age, Amazing, Car, Cool, Dreams, Experience, Failure, Famous, Fear, Happiness, Life, Music, War, Wedding

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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.	Life	101
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.	Amazing	102
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.		103
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.		104
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.	Wedding	105
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.	Fear, War	106
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.		107
When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.		108
You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.		109
I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.		110
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.	Dating	111
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.	Hope	112
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.		113
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.		114
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.		115
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'		116
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.	Age, Happiness	117
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.		118
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.		119
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.	Music	120
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.		121
Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.		122
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.		123
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.	Dating	124
It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.		125
I've never been a bad boy.		126
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.	Learning	201
I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.	Cool	202
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.		203
I lost my head for a little while.		204
No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.		205
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.	Learning	206
I don't have anybody telling me what to do.		207
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.		208
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.		209
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.	Experience	210
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.	Hope	211
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.		212
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.		213
I really don't want to be a hunk.		214
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.		215
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.		216
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.		217
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.'	Dreams	218
It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.		219
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.	Failure	220
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.		221
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.		222
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.		223
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.	Car	224
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.		225
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.		226
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.		301
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.		302
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.		303
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.		304
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.		305
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.		306
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.		307
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'		308
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?		309
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.		310
I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.		311
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.	Famous	312
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.		313
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.		314
I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.		315
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.		316
I love being the center of attention.		317
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.		318
The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.		319
I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.		320
I just like collaborating.		321
There's so many inspiring people out there.		322
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.		323
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'		324
I'm not an icon. Not even in America.		325
I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.		326
My hits are not hits.		401
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.		402
All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.		403
I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.		404
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.		405
I just sort of lost my head for a little while.		406
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.		407

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