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“I wish that when I was younger I could have met my current self. We would have sat down at a coffee shop so that I could explain life to young me in terms that only we would understand. It would have saved me a lot of hardship.”
—John Mayer (via mayerology)
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Famous people make really bad records, so I make music as a musician.”
“The people who have the hardest time are the people who are fighting the future.”
“I know that I’m supposed to say that my newest one (album) is the best one. Bullshit. Continuum is my best one.”
“Those barriers are there to protect you from me. If you get within 10 feet of me, I’ll ruin your life.”
“Painful as it may be sometimes, I recommend going through life without the epidural.”
“I’ve realized that I’d rather follow a person into battle who’s got a bunch of heart rather than a bunch of head.”
“I will always care about things I shouldn’t, but that’s a good way of making sure I don’t miss caring about something important.”
“You can listen to all the sage wisdom you want, but things only make sense when you can explain them to yourself in your own words.”
“Think of how much mental capacity I’m using to meet the right person so I can stop giving a fuck about it!”
“I have a good heart. I think I may have gotten lost a couple of times, but so does everybody.”
“I get to this point now where I start learning that: when all else fails, go with the heart.”
“Am I lonely? on such a fundamental level, it’s ridiculous. I’m dying from inside out and only music is my saviour.”
“Success is not measured in how much money you make, it’s when you say you are going to do something and you do it!”
“I’d recommend full on global formal nuclear war before I’d recommend to try to get a lady jealous on purpose. It doesn’t end well.”
“Anybody who criticizes you is a wimp. So be you. And be you loud, and be you strong, and be you to the maximum.”
“For as badass and unaffected as we try to come off, we’re all just one sentence away from being brought to the edge of tears…”
“I’m just saying, one thing that girls gotta learn to understand is, 3 words: “I’m - not - him.”
“Be the only thing I can’t outsmart in my life. Be the only thing I didn’t see coming, ‘cause I see everything coming!”
“If they’re worth something still, cancel your plans and go to them. It’s okay to give your heart to someone you already gave your heart to.”
“There’s always gonna be grey area. And I ruined a lot of years of my life trying to turn grey area into either black or white. You can’t.”
“The truth is going to catch up with us whether we want to run from it or not.”
“Sometimes you have to throw in the towel and call that ‘re-occuring flaw’ a character trait. Someone will love it.”
“Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.”
jmma reading lounge: The 3rd Musketeer →
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You guys know how much we love this group right?
I believe you do.
Not only because we do this out of love for John and his music, but for all the fans around the world who have been part of JMMA over the years.
With that said, you would be amazed at the amount of time running a group this…
Perfecto:)
“There’s a question commonly asked within the gambling community from one player to another: “what’s your unit?” Your unit is defined by the amount of money you think in multiples of; if you perceive a thousand dollars as ten sets of 100 dollars, that makes your unit 100 dollars. In college, a twenty dollar bill is at least four sets of five dollar bills, and maybe even 20 sets of one dollar bills, if you remember that one dollar can buy you four packages of Nutty Bars.
The higher your unit goes up, the harder you are to please. If you were to sit at the blackjack table with $1,000 and win $10, chances are you’ll ignore it unless it happens 50 more times in pretty good succession, when maybe you’ll think about getting up and calling yourself a winner. This is the reason gamblers bet according to their unit. Professional blackjack books say the proper betting amount is determined by the starting bank divided by 30, which in the case of $1,000 would be $33.33 a bet.
Oh, one question left to answer. What is your unit? If you remember how many dinners and movies and tanks of gas and iPhone apps $1000 can but you, your unit is probably going to be $25, as in “I have 40 chances to win.” If you were to plop down at the table after a night of losing $50,000 and taking your last $1,000 out of the ATM, your unit isn’t going to be the same. It’s not going to be $25. It’s probably not even $100 or even $1000 for that matter. The unit is probably far too big to achieve any success worth appreciating given the relatively small amount of each bet.
I think the same question is true in the case of happiness: what’s your unit? If you take a look at everything around you, can you see how much there is to be happy about? And if you’re coming up short, could it be because you’re thinking in units that are too big for your bank? Seeing the things that matter to you as smaller and more abundant is a difficult task once you’ve visualized them as indefinably large and hard to count, but in the end, you’ll get more bang for your buck.” —
The higher your unit goes up, the harder you are to please. If you were to sit at the blackjack table with $1,000 and win $10, chances are you’ll ignore it unless it happens 50 more times in pretty good succession, when maybe you’ll think about getting up and calling yourself a winner. This is the reason gamblers bet according to their unit. Professional blackjack books say the proper betting amount is determined by the starting bank divided by 30, which in the case of $1,000 would be $33.33 a bet.
Oh, one question left to answer. What is your unit? If you remember how many dinners and movies and tanks of gas and iPhone apps $1000 can but you, your unit is probably going to be $25, as in “I have 40 chances to win.” If you were to plop down at the table after a night of losing $50,000 and taking your last $1,000 out of the ATM, your unit isn’t going to be the same. It’s not going to be $25. It’s probably not even $100 or even $1000 for that matter. The unit is probably far too big to achieve any success worth appreciating given the relatively small amount of each bet.
I think the same question is true in the case of happiness: what’s your unit? If you take a look at everything around you, can you see how much there is to be happy about? And if you’re coming up short, could it be because you’re thinking in units that are too big for your bank? Seeing the things that matter to you as smaller and more abundant is a difficult task once you’ve visualized them as indefinably large and hard to count, but in the end, you’ll get more bang for your buck.” —
What’s Your Unit? (via jhnmyr May 2, 2010)
Thank you Julia for the reminder:)
Love Is A Verb
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John Mayer | Love Is A Verb | In Support Of Our Troops
Reblogged solely for the adorable cover art. Song’s pretty good too:)
many doors opened
Due to sheer persistence. Just not the doors I was hoping for unless of course I wanted to give porn a shot. Maybe behind the camera but all kidding aside, most of those paths I wanted to take required some kind of internship which I was unaware of at the time. Keep in mind this was before many companies posted job opportunities online.
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Article about John Mayer 2/13/04 in The CT Post right before the Grammy Awards →
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I moved from NJ to Bridgeport, CT the summer of ‘83 where we lived for one year. My daughter went to Bridgeport High School for most of that year when JM’s father was the principal, though I don’t remember him. Thinking back to that time, I wonder if I could have “passed him on the sidewalk” while I was out and about. JM turned 6 that year…that beautiful little boy who grew up to be a beautiful man.
I love the last few lines…
But the memories of selling out a club that holds 180 people for the first time, what that drive home was like, that’s mine. “Those were really special days for me. Playing Eddie’s Attic [a club in Atlanta] and selling a bunch of CDs and getting a handful of cash, those were really amazing days. Those were the big steps. The way up, that was a great time.”
