Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “The bigger the star, the bigger the target.”

— Michael Jackson

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God’s creations.”

— Michael Jackson

307. “Your thoughts are as free as any bird.”

— Michael Jackson

308. “Please, I don’t want anybody to think I’m starving, I’m not. My health is perfect, actually.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

310. “I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.”

— Michael Jackson

311. “I’ve seen lawyers who don’t represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.”

— Michael Jackson

312. “If – and it can be in a movie or in a department store – I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.”

— Michael Jackson

313. “A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it.”

— Michael Jackson

314. “Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink – it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.”

— Michael Jackson

315. “There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.”

— Michael Jackson

316. “My heart and prayers go out to every individual.”

— Michael Jackson

317. “I want people to appreciate talent and ability.”

— Michael Jackson

318. “I love movies and I love art – and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, ‘Oh my God!’ when you get to the top before you come down. It’s just the same as structuring a show or a dance.”

— Michael Jackson

319. “There is strength in isolation, there’s strength in being obsessive about something.”

— Michael Jackson

320. “They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.”

— Michael Jackson

321. “I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.”

— Michael Jackson

322. “I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It’s the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, “Maybe this is the best performance I can do.””

— Michael Jackson

323. “I hate labels because it should be just music. I don’t see anything wrong with disco. Call it anything. It’s music.”

— Michael Jackson

324. “I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.”

— Michael Jackson

325. “They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I – I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.”

— Michael Jackson

326. “I want my work to help people rediscover the child that’s hiding in them.”

— Michael Jackson

327. “Whatever you see me do is spontaneous reactions on stage. It’s nothing planned. It’s nothing that I got in the room and tried to think of hard. It just happens through feeling.”

— Michael Jackson

328. “What we need to learn from children isn’t childish. Being with them connects us to the deep wisdom of life, which is everpresent and only asks to be lived. Now, when the world is so confused and its problems so complicated, I feel we need our children more than ever. Their natural wisdom points the way to solutions that lie, waitingto be recognized, within our own hearts.”

— Michael Jackson

329. “I always hated the world “acting” – to say, “I’m an actor.” It should be more like a believer.”

— Michael Jackson

330. “Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.”

— Michael Jackson

331. “And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it’s plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God’s glow... Heal the world.”

— Michael Jackson

332. “I love trees I have this thing for trees and the colors & changing of leaves. I love it I respect these kinds of things.”

— Michael Jackson

333. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

334. “When people leave my show, I want them to say, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that in my life... It’s amazing. He’s the greatest entertainer in the world.’”

— Michael Jackson

335. “The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace.”

— Michael Jackson

336. “If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: ‘Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart.”

— Michael Jackson

337. “I want to do something to help those who lost their parents, who lost their mothers and their fathers. Those are our people. Those are our children. Those are our parents.”

— Michael Jackson

338. “Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.”

— Michael Jackson

339. “Love is a funny thing to describe. It’s so easy to feel and yet so slippery to talk about. It’s like a bar of soap in the bathtub – you have it in your hand until you hold on too tight.”

— Michael Jackson

340. “I’ve been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don’t understand is just singing about sex and “I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over” and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.”

— Michael Jackson

341. “Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It’s very charming. It’s very sweet. It’s what the whole world should do.”

— Michael Jackson

342. “I’m totally at home on the stage. That’s where I live. That’s where I was born. That’s where I’m safe.”

— Michael Jackson

343. “Yeah, they are loyal, women. They have been loyal. They are activists. They will fight you about me.”

— Michael Jackson

344. “I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak.”

— Michael Jackson

345. “God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.”

— Michael Jackson

346. “James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard – I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock’n’roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It’s so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.”

— Michael Jackson

347. “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.”

— Michael Jackson

348. “So popular is beer, the world’s best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do.”

— Michael Jackson

349. “I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.”

— Michael Jackson

350. “Those who criticize. They desire our blood, not our pain. But still I must achieve. I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the Power I was sent forth. For the world. For the children. But have mercy, for Ive been bleeding a long time now.”

— Michael Jackson