Top 552 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Jackson - Page 9

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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
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.
When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad.
I used to say I and Me
Now it's Us, now it's We — © Michael Jackson
I used to say I and Me Now it's Us, now it's We
The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.
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.
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!
I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.
Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.
I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person … I'm not making myself an angel because I'm not an angel and I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right.
I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.
There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.
Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?
Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.
I think God outdid Himself when He created children. — © Michael Jackson
I think God outdid Himself when He created children.
They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.
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.
you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown
All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\-\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music.
A lot of people think that I'm a Michael Jackson impersonator.
For me, Love is something very pure.
There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.
I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there.
I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
I think secretly and privately there is a destiny for me and just for me to stay on that track and follow it. I really believe and feel I am here for a reason and that's my job, you know, to perform for the people and if they accept it that I am rewarded.
I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.
Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.
"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.
I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.
GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS A SECRET. THE FASTER I TWIRL, THE MORE I AM STILL INSIDE. MY DANCE IS ALL MOTION WITHOUT, ALL SILENCE WITHIN. AS MUCH AS I LOVE TO MAKE MUSIC, IT'S THE UNHEARD MUSIC THAT NEVER DIES. AND SILENCE IS MY REAL DANCE, THOUGH IT NEVER MOVES. IT STANDS ASIDE, MY CHOREOGRAPHER OF GRACE, AND BLESSES EACH FINGER AND TOE.
What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done.
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters
I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.
I don't like pop music. — © Michael Jackson
I don't like pop music.
To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.
Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!
There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.
The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it.
My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.
I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That's the real truth. I love them.
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 authoritative 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...
Planet Earth, gentle and blue With all my heart, I love you. Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson
Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.
I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are
 Although I know we've drifted far! — © Michael Jackson
I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far!
We are the world, we are the children.
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.
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.
When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.
Tell the angels no, I don’t wanna leave my baby alone I don’t want nobody else to hold you That’s a chance I’ll take Baby I’ll stay, Heaven can wait No, if the angels took me from this earth I would tell them bring me back to her It’s a chance I’ll take, maybe I’ll stay Heaven can wait
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?
Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby
I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.
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