Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “My mission is healing, pure and simple.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

253. “With acting, it’s like becoming another person. I think that’s neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that’s when it’s magic.”

— Michael Jackson

254. “There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes.”

— Michael Jackson

255. “If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.”

— Michael Jackson

256. “I love to create magic – to put something together that’s so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people’s heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.”

— Michael Jackson

257. “The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists.”

— Michael Jackson

258. “Sometimes when you’re treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.”

— Michael Jackson

259. “Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt Jesus say bring on the children? Be like the children. Not childish, but child-like. That kind of innocence.”

— Michael Jackson

260. “Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn’t make it factual. To buy it is to feed it.”

— Michael Jackson

261. “Most people don’t know me, that is why they write such things in wich most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.”

— Michael Jackson

262. “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

263. “When I perform, I lose myself. I’m in total control of that stage. I don’t think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.”

— Michael Jackson

264. “What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one’s life and will hopefully touch others as well.”

— Michael Jackson

265. “I wasn’t aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you’re automatically different.”

— Michael Jackson

266. “It all went by so fast, didn’t it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.”

— Michael Jackson

267. “Everyone’s Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World’s Got A Role For Me I’m So Confused Will You Show To Me You’ll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me.”

— Michael Jackson

268. “Beer may cause you to digress – and lead a happier life.”

— Michael Jackson

269. “I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I’m done.”

— Michael Jackson

270. “I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You’ve got to do it that way because if you’re thinking, you’re dead. Performing is not about thinking; it’s about feeling.”

— Michael Jackson

271. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

272. “But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.”

— Michael Jackson

273. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

274. “I’m actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It’s nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too. I know whether something feels right. If it doesn’t, I know how to fix it. Everything has to be in place and if it is you feel good, you feel fulfilled.”

— Michael Jackson

275. “Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don’t force into adulthood.”

— Michael Jackson

276. “Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, ‘God, is this wonderful – do I appreciate it.’”

— Michael Jackson

277. “Each day I take time out to study the Bible, no matter where I am. The teachings of the Bible have added a new dimension to my life. It, somehow, makes me whole.”

— Michael Jackson

278. “I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.”

— Michael Jackson

279. “Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.”

— Michael Jackson

280. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

281. “I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.””

— Michael Jackson

282. “Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don’t you?”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

284. “I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people – be like the fly on the wall. Even if it’s two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don’t know what it’s like to fit in an everyday life situation.”

— Michael Jackson

285. “The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.”

— Michael Jackson

286. “Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it’s not just random sound, that it’s music.”

— Michael Jackson

287. “I go around the world dealing with running and hiding... I can’t take a walk in the park. I can’t go to the store... I have to hide in the room. You feel like you’re in prison.”

— Michael Jackson

288. “Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.”

— Michael Jackson

289. “I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.”

— Michael Jackson

290. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

291. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

292. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

293. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

294. “Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.”

— Michael Jackson

295. “Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel.”

— Michael Jackson

296. “I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn’t understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.”

— Michael Jackson

297. “I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.”

— Michael Jackson

298. “That’s what’s great about show business. It’s escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you’re in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It’s wonderful.”

— Michael Jackson

299. “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

300. “I’m just like anyone. I cut and I bleed and I embarass easily.”

— Michael Jackson