Quotes: Career

"I actually like being motivated by that burning desire to do something. I like giant leaps. They're fun, because they scare everyone around you!" — Fairfield County Weeky
(From a Much Music Interview)
“I’m starting to learn that there is more to the world then me and the people who like me. There are going to be people who don’t like the record cause it’s not there thing, Hopefully at the end of the day, people will go it’s not my thing but it doesn’t suck”
“The way my career has gone, everything has been slop. A really really gradual slop, so I don’t know where most of the points are on the chart where things started to happen”
“I don’t remember the day I stop being nervous, I just kinda forgot to do it”
"I’m going to tell you how to get your own certified Canadian Platinum Plat:
1. Don’t do well in high school
2. Work at a gas station. This is important because it’s going to kill off all the brain cells that are going to tell you not to do the stupid things coming up.”
“Knowing what you are, and not know how to show someone else and to have to sit around and wait till someone else can find out, and that waiting period just sucks"
"People ask me what the best part of being famous is, my first thought is to tell them about my new flat screen. Seriously, it rocks, it is beautiful. But it is more than just my flat screen. It is the fact that I can play this next song, and none of you will leave."
"I know we have some competition tonight, I'm referring to the Roanoke Gun Fair"
"I pride myself on always being bigger than the moment, and smarter than the moment, and I'm just a 16-year-old kid in this moment—and this moment is kicking my ass." at the 2003 Grammy Awards
"People ask me what the best part of being famous is, my first thought is to tell them about my new flat screen. Seriously, it rocks, it is beautiful. But it is more than just my flat screen. It is the fact that I can play this next song, and none of you will leave."
"I don’t need to be the next Dave Matthews, but it wouldn’t matter if I was the biggest thing in the world either, as long as I can have a personal relationship with the listener.
As long as you give me a guitar and I get to play some real stuff. That’s where it’s at for me."
"I don't mind making sissy rock... I'll rock your ass sensitive-style"
"I can't believe I'm f**** doing this!" — John Mayer has a Tv Show
"It's the dumbest thing I've ever did in my life" — John Mayer has a TV Show
"People ask me what the best part of being famous is, my first thought is to tell them about my new flat screen. Seriously, it rocks, it is beautiful. But it is more than just my flat screen. It is the fact that I can play this next song, and none of you will leave."
"I don't think about hits like money," added Mayer, who already won a best male pop vocal Grammy for his song "Your Body is a Wonderland" in 2003. "I don't think about hits like record sales. I think of hits as connecting with the people.”
"I happen to a artist in a time when people will not admit to themselves when something is good..You know and people take the name of the artist, the artist’s record label, and the artist logo and all that other preferences before.. the way..if it sounds right, it’s right, that’s all there is to it!!”
John Mayer on reading the ‘Life’ section of USA Today. “That’s all I read. Everything else goes. Cause it’s life man. You know what? I don’t care about money. I DON’T CARE ABOUT MONEY. I don’t care about sports. Sports is recreation, sports is fluff. I don’t care about, about the front page. That’s just, that’s just the front page. That’s trying to sell the paper. The heart, literally, the center, of the paper, is Life. And right there, movie reviews. That’s life.”
"Taking a girl back to your hotel room is like shoplifting from a store you work at. I don't have it in me. I'm here to play music, not women."
"Thank you, thank you so much, um, I'm really proud to be a musician, and i guess specifically tonight as a songwriter. I want to thank, well a bunch of people who told me this song was good for people to hear, and I said it probably wasn't. Charly Walk*, Columbia Records, Don Iron*, Will Botlon*, Michelle Anthony, Greg Latterman. Um, it's still not the for choice for a single but, this is nice to have, I'm just, I want to thank my family, my mom, my dad, Carl and Ben, and dedicate this to my grandmother, who had an awesome daughter, named my mom. Thank you very very much."
"I don't think if music was something that I had to work for, that I would have ever done it, because I'm lazy by nature. I'm the guy who passed everything because his mom wrote him a note."
Right before "Bigger Than My Body" — "I've been getting a lot of crank calls lately. And most of the people who call, I find, just want to share their feelings. So, this girl called last night, and she called me a one-hit wonder. And that's just not true, because, I'm a two hit wonder..a two and a half hit wonder..two and a fourth.. so with this next song, we're going for 3.25 hits im my career."
"Ya know I don't get to say this enough but, I have a new album coming out soon. And we sent it to a lab to see if there was any suck on it and after 36 hours of testing, it suck-free!"
"Yeah, I have a new record coming out. You paint your first picture and they go, 'Great job Johnny! It's done! (clapping)' and then I go.. 'Wait I have more.'"