Mayer Hawthorne - Best Quotes

Science

I shopped at J. Crew in high school I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd now I'm a music-nerd.

Mayer Hawthorne

I shopped at J. Crew in high school I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd now I'm a music-nerd.

Humor

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Mayer Hawthorne

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Experience

When you're a soul singer I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks but that's never been my experience.

Mayer Hawthorne

When you're a soul singer I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks but that's never been my experience.

Education

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music rock soul Motown jazz Frank Sinatra everything.

Mayer Hawthorne

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music rock soul Motown jazz Frank Sinatra everything.

Dad

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day I would take their spot.

Mayer Hawthorne

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day I would take their spot.

Dad

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' – Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

Mayer Hawthorne

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' – Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

Cool

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy N.W.A. LL Cool J – I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy N.W.A. LL Cool J – I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Hot Quotes

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Mayer Hawthorne

I shopped at J. Crew in high school I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd now I'm a music-nerd.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

When you're a soul singer I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate to. For whatever reason that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks but that's never been my experience.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music rock soul Motown jazz Frank Sinatra everything.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day I would take their spot.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' – Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy N.W.A. LL Cool J – I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.