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" I just sort of lost my head for a little while. "
John Mayer
Just
While
Head
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" 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. "
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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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" There are people in the world who have the power to change our values. "
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" I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. "
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" I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' "
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" I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. "
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" 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. "
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Weather
" People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them. "
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" I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' "
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Restaurant
Never
" I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. "
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Never
Sober
" I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. "
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" If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar. "
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You
Kind
Live
" 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. "
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Single
Home
Just
" I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. "
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Fine
Good
Good Music
" Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. "
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Failure
Become
" All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. "
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Present
Song
Want
" I don't have anybody telling me what to do. "
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Anybody
Telling
Me
" I just like collaborating. "
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Collaborating
Like
Just
" Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day. "
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My Life
Life
Sometimes
" It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you. "
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Impossible
Everyone
Like
" 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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Doing
You
Stage
" I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me. "
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Me
Appreciate
Been
" I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. "
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Emotion
Need
Place
" 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. "
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Blues
Going
You
" I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. "
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I Feel
" I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. "
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Age
Successful
Very
" Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. "
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Way
Own
" When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking. "
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Me
Magic
" There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. "
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" It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. "
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