Quotable quotes by John Mayer

"I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve"

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Published: Fri 16 Oct 2015, 4:23 PM

Last updated: Fri 23 Oct 2015, 11:04 AM

Seven-time Grammy award winner John Mayer turns 38 today, October 16. Some witticisms from the guy who brought us Gravity and Waiting on the World to Change
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-colour boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-colour boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-colour box, though I've got a few missing."
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."
It's very liberating when you finally realise it's impossible to make everyone like you."
Hopefully, people can see my music is tethered to my brain."
 I've realised you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough."
 I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats."
"So scared of getting older/ I'm only good at being young/ So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun" (Lyrics, Stop This Train)
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix."

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