329 Quotes by John Mayer

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

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.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.

Waiting on the World to Change,

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.