John Mayer

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John Mayer (b. October 16, 1977) is a Grammy-award-winning guitarist and singer/songwriter. He has enjoyed success both as a solo artist and with the blues group, John Mayer Trio.

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  • 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.
  • Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
    • Mayer in his November 1, 2004 column of Esquire magazine.
  • 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.
    • From the Any Given Thursday DVD, referring to the Life section of USA Today
  • There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens it's life span.
  • The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, "No, I'm happy for you?" That's when it's really sad.
    • Mayer in a December 2005 Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast
    • On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"
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  • I'm good. I'm fierce. And I'm not some gaming overachiever. I just have a skill. I was born to kill bionically augmented men.
    • About the XBox game Halo
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About Mayer

  • He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade.
  • Neither punk nor prom king, Mayer was a tall kid from Connecticut, driving on the freeways, chasing slippery techno women, inhabiting a world of parents and slipcovers and holidays and gracious Southeastern metropolises; he was smart, inquisitive, articulate, a touch off in places.
    • James Hunter (with Rolling Stone Magazine) on his impression of Mayer after Room for Squares. (October 2, 2003)
  • John Mayer is a very talented brother and you don't know where your blessings are going to come from.
    • The rapper Common on working with Mayer on the song "Go." (From MTV.com)
  • He words stuff with a real, I guess it's a witty, intelligent, very human [sensibility]. I would like to grab some of those qualities...I wish he was my friend.
  • Me and John, we just cool, period. ... We get in the studio and we vibe and then we make music from that point.
  • One time I saw him perform live and he switched up his song at the end, like, [improvised] different chords — he remixed it...He's just not your typical guitar player. He's trying to push the envelope for the way guitarists and vocalists are heard. ... I just respect his musicality.
  • You know, the dude is a real musician. It's like anything you ever loved in Joe Jackson or anything you ever loved in any '70s rock. You're gonna get it out of this dude. He's a real student, and it comes through in his music.
  • I was astonished at how well he played live. I had no idea he was that good.
  • "I love John Mayer I think he is the most amazing guitarist ever. I only wish that I was as good as him even though I realize I fucking suck and don't know how to play guitar. First Jimi Hendrix smoked me, than Stevie Ray Vaughn, and now this skinny little white kid from Connecticut. I fucking suck at life, I think I'm going to kill myself."
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