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Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
John Mayer
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John Mayer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 16
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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.
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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.
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I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.
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You look so good it hurts sometimes.
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I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
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High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
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I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.
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I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.
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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.
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I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.
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Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.
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When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
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Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't
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I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!
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No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.
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Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak
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Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.
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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.
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