Top 188 Quotes & Sayings by Prince
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
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.
What's missing from pop music is danger.
Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.
I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
I like constructive criticism from smart people.
You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.
Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.
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.
When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you.
The internet's completely over.
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.
Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
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.
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.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated.
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
Music is real. It affects people; it's real.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
There's a dark side to everything.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.
I don't talk about the past.
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.
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
Everyone has a rock bottom.
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
I have a writing addiction.
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.
I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive.
I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.
You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state.
Instead of hate, celebrate.
I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.
No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.
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.
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.
I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.
People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.
I have a lot of parties.
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.
Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right?
My hair is capable of doing a lot of different things.
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.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.
Each audience is different.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
The gatekeepers must change.
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