Top 188 Quotes & Sayings by Prince - Page 2
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
I'm not one to get bad reviews.
I like arguments.
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.
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.
You can always tell when the groove is working or not.
I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies.
Nobody sues their fans.
The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.
YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.
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.
You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.
There are people who are unhappy with everything.
We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.
Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.
My bankers are very happy with me.
At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.
You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?
I record all the time.
I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.
A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.
When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.
It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.
I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
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.
I pride myself on working with great musicians.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
All you see on television are debased images.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.
Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.
I like to open people's eyes.
I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.
There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.
Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.
There are no great jazz-fusion bands.
Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care.
I became merely a pawn used to produce more money for Warner Bros.
Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.
'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since.
Well, my musicians are my friends.
I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.
In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.
I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.
I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.
I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.
'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.
I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
I'm real easy-going.
If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.
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.
I'm a Jehovah's Witness.
Any business situation is restrictive.
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