Michael Jackson Quotes & Sayings

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me. — Michael Jackson

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. — Michael Jackson

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one. — Michael Jackson

I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing? — Michael Jackson

I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny? — Michael Jackson

Who will dance on the floor in the round? — Michael Jackson

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am. — Michael Jackson

The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoratative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs ... — Michael Jackson

Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of glass fell on top of this girl. And the girl's throat was slit. She just got slit. And I remember there was blood everywhere. Oh God, so much blood. And she grabbed her throat and was bleeding and everyone just ignored her. Why? Because I was there and they wanted to grab at me and get my autograph. I wonder whatever happened to that girl. — Michael Jackson

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel. — Michael Jackson

I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record. — Michael Jackson

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever. — Michael Jackson

I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation. — Michael Jackson

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. — Michael Jackson

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful. — Michael Jackson

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night. — Michael Jackson

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. — Michael Jackson

Music is a mantra that soothes the soul ... something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music. — Michael Jackson

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got. — Michael Jackson

You give me fever from miles around
ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown — Michael Jackson

Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side. — Michael Jackson

With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer. — Michael Jackson

Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will? — Michael Jackson

I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood ... people don't think about the importance of it. — Michael Jackson

The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all. — Michael Jackson

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know. — Michael Jackson

I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams. — Michael Jackson

What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody. — Michael Jackson

I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me. — Michael Jackson

Love is a funny thing to describe. It's so easy to feel and yet so slippery to talk about. It's like a bar of soap in the bathtub - you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight. — Michael Jackson

What happened to truth? Did it go out of style? — Michael Jackson

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer. — Michael Jackson

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something. — Michael Jackson

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans. — Michael Jackson

I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way. — Michael Jackson

I would like to understand my father. — Michael Jackson

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it. — Michael Jackson

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead. — Michael Jackson

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.' — Michael Jackson

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see. — Michael Jackson

When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it. — Michael Jackson

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me. — Michael Jackson

I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'. — Michael Jackson

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music. — Michael Jackson

It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away. — Michael Jackson

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids. — Michael Jackson

Love is the human family's most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance. — Michael Jackson

I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up. — Michael Jackson

Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually. — Michael Jackson

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling. — Michael Jackson

Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in wich most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them. — Michael Jackson

Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie. — Michael Jackson

Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children. — Michael Jackson

Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It's nothing planned. It's nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling. — Michael Jackson

I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh. — Michael Jackson

Some friends, you only see them when the sun shines.. My fans sustained me even in dark days. I owe them everything. — Michael Jackson

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal. — Michael Jackson

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program. — Michael Jackson

I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic. — Michael Jackson

In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album - or song - you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have. — Michael Jackson

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you. — Michael Jackson

Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough. — Michael Jackson

I must endure for the world, for the children. — Michael Jackson

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it. — Michael Jackson

Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere. — Michael Jackson

Its all for love... L.O.V.E. — Michael Jackson

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town. — Michael Jackson

If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart. — Michael Jackson

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell. — Michael Jackson

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike. — Michael Jackson

When you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift. — Michael Jackson

Being a world traveler, I'm touched and moved by everything that happens, especially to children. It gets me emotionally sick and I go through a lot of pain when I see that type of pain. I can't pretend as if I don't see it. It affects me very much. — Michael Jackson

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. — Michael Jackson

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything. — Michael Jackson

A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator. — Michael Jackson

I'm a strong person. I'm a warrior and I know what is inside of me. — Michael Jackson

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected. — Michael Jackson

For me, Love is something very pure. — Michael Jackson

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries. — Michael Jackson

We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We're going to make it through this! — Michael Jackson

When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die. — Michael Jackson

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice
you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist. — Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same. — Michael Jackson

Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other. — Michael Jackson

I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap. — Michael Jackson

I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design. — Michael Jackson

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it. — Michael Jackson

Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth. — Michael Jackson

Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead. — Michael Jackson

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth. — Michael Jackson

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart. — Michael Jackson

My mother is fine. For me it perfection. — Michael Jackson

I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children. — Michael Jackson

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying. — Michael Jackson

I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told. — Michael Jackson

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need. — Michael Jackson

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people. — Michael Jackson

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. — Michael Jackson