Prince Quotes & Sayings

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of - how do you say? - child streak. — Prince

My bankers are very happy with me. — Prince

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. — Prince

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere. — Prince

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life. — Prince

Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift. — Prince

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy. — Prince

It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more — Prince

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster. — Prince

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given. — Prince

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic. — Prince

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude. — Prince

There's a dark side to everything. — Prince

Music is real. It affects people; it's real. — Prince

Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search — Prince

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. — Prince

The internet is completely over. — Prince

I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive. — Prince

I don't talk about the past. — Prince

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays. — Prince

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It's the way I am. I love it. — Prince

I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious. — Prince

There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country. — Prince

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. — Prince

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. — Prince

C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need. — Prince

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything. — Prince

I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it. — Prince

Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun. — Prince

Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not. — Prince

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me. — Prince

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys. — Prince

I like constructive criticism from smart people. — Prince

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies. — Prince

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' — Prince

When u go on social media today please make sure to make my death all about u k thanks — Prince

The internet's completely over. — Prince

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher. — Prince

There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain. — Prince

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale. — Prince

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves. — Prince

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. — Prince

I knew a girl named Nikki I guess U could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine. She said "How'd U like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind. — Prince

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach. — Prince

There are no great jazz-fusion bands. — Prince

All realities, all dimensions are open to me! — Prince

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? — Prince

When i want to hear new music, i make it — Prince

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there. — Prince

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would - I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven. — Prince

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. — Prince

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert. — Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. — Prince

I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive. — Prince

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free. — Prince

You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state. — Prince

From its conception and that one and only meeting, 'HITNRUN' took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that's what freedom feels like, 'HITNRUN' is what it sounds like. — Prince

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. — Prince

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would. — Prince

Nobody sues their fans. — Prince

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now. — Prince

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music. — Prince

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen. — Prince

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely. — Prince

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play. — Prince

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality — Prince

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right. — Prince

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. — Prince

Don't hate me because I'm fabulous — Prince

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits. — Prince

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused. — Prince

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius. — Prince

Time is a mind construct. It's not real. — Prince

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry. — Prince

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction. — Prince

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet. — Prince

I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies. — Prince

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. — Prince

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way. — Prince

I pride myself on working with great musicians. — Prince

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me. — Prince

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period. — Prince

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward. — Prince

It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street. — Prince

When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it. — Prince

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. — Prince

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. — Prince

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. — Prince

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist ... don't sign. — Prince

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool. — Prince

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete. — Prince

Everyone has a rock bottom. — Prince

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know. — Prince

I just want your extra time and your ... Kiss — Prince

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out. — Prince

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? — Prince

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. — Prince

I rock, therefore I am. — Prince

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back. — Prince