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.
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John Mayer
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About John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play at local clubs, refining his skills and gaining a minor following. He performed at the 2000 South by Southwest festival, and was subsequently signed by Aware Records, an imprint of Columbia Records through which he…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by John MayerYou 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.
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
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I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
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.
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.
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 momen…
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 t…
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 g…
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.
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
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.
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.
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 wan…
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.
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
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.