Top 552 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Jackson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Michael Jackson.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture. Jackson influenced artists across many music genres; through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated dance moves such as the moonwalk, to which he gave the name, as well as the robot. He is the most awarded individual music artist in history.

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.
Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. — © Michael Jackson
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Me and Janet really are two different people.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
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?
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am. — © Michael Jackson
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
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.
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
I just wish I could understand my father.
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
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.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists. — © Michael Jackson
Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair, Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations, Through our doubts and frustrations, In my violence and my turbulence, Through my fear and my confessions, And my anguish and my pain, Through my joy and my sorrow, In the promise of another tomorrow, I'll never let you part, For you're always in my heart.
To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
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.
I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.
No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best. — © Michael Jackson
No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.
Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.
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.
Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.
Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.
Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.
Prejudice is ignorance.
Don't be afraid to be different.
Study the greats and become greater
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.
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