Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “How does it feel when you’re alone and you’re cold inside.”

— Michael Jackson

202. “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me.”

— Michael Jackson

203. “No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.”

— Michael Jackson

204. “The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.”

— Michael Jackson

205. “My attitude is if fashion says it’s forbidden, I’m going to do it.”

— Michael Jackson

206. “For me, Love is something very pure.”

— Michael Jackson

207. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

208. “The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don’t want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create – do something that is totally different and unusual.”

— Michael Jackson

209. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

210. “Prejudice is taught. If the world were full of only children, it would be a much better place.”

— Michael Jackson

211. “We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.”

— Michael Jackson

212. “Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.”

— Michael Jackson

213. “I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, ‘You don’t get older, you get better’.”

— Michael Jackson

214. “I don’t like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.”

— Michael Jackson

215. “I have the greatest fans in the world. I love them... All of them, I really do.”

— Michael Jackson

216. “My mission is healing, pure and simple.”

— Michael Jackson

217. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

218. “The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.”

— Michael Jackson

219. “I totally enjoy what I’m doing and bringing joy into people’s lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up’s life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.”

— Michael Jackson

220. “I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.”

— Michael Jackson

221. “Mama always told me, be careful what you do, don’t go around breaking young girls hearts.”

— Michael Jackson

222. “A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.”

— Michael Jackson

223. “I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That’s all. That’s the real truth.”

— Michael Jackson

224. “I’m interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that’s what I want to do in life – in everything I do.”

— Michael Jackson

225. “Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, “Live, be, move, rejoice – you are alive!” Without the heart’s wise rhythm, we could not exist.”

— Michael Jackson

226. “Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.”

— Michael Jackson

227. “Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.”

— Michael Jackson

228. “Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.”

— Michael Jackson

229. “Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it’s a repugnant use of one of God’s gifts.”

— Michael Jackson

230. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

231. “Some friends, you only see them when the sun shines... My fans sustained me even in dark days. I owe them everything.”

— Michael Jackson

232. “Damned indecision and cursed pride.”

— Michael Jackson

233. “When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.”

— Michael Jackson

234. “When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.”

— Michael Jackson

235. “I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it’s actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that’s the biggest sin in the world.”

— Michael Jackson

236. “On many occasions when I am dancing I’ve felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !”

— Michael Jackson

237. “You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last!”

— Michael Jackson

238. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

239. “The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved.”

— Michael Jackson

240. “We can help the world live without fear. It is our only hope, and without hope we are lost.”

— Michael Jackson

241. “I can’t ignore someone that’s in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.”

— Michael Jackson

242. “Don’t blame it on the sunshine. Don’t blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.”

— Michael Jackson

243. “There’s bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.”

— Michael Jackson

244. “The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.”

— Michael Jackson

245. “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.”

— Michael Jackson

246. “I never have felt that people should feel that they are better than others, simply because they just happen to possess a larger share of material items and monetary wealth than others less fortunate. I believe in sharing, assisting, and just lending a helping hand to people.”

— Michael Jackson

247. “People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.”

— Michael Jackson

248. “The press has made up so much... God... awful, horrifying stories... it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.”

— Michael Jackson

249. “My deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me... the joy I receive in creating my music.”

— Michael Jackson

250. “I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.”

— Michael Jackson