Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It’s created in space. It’s God’s work, not mine.”

— Michael Jackson

352. “I wouldn’t say I was sexy! But I guess that’s fine if that’s what they say. I like that in concert. That’s neat.”

— Michael Jackson

353. “The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say ‘thank you.’”

— Michael Jackson

354. “I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like – boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.”

— Michael Jackson

355. “An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool.”

— Michael Jackson

356. “Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.”

— Michael Jackson

357. “I think God outdid Himself when He created children.”

— Michael Jackson

358. “Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn’t him. This is not him.”

— Michael Jackson

359. “I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, ‘Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.’ And that’s how I feel when I’m singing some songs. It’s wonderful.”

— Michael Jackson

360. “I’ll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn’t reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it’s sitting at Diana Ross’s house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.”

— Michael Jackson

361. “May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.”

— Michael Jackson

362. “I’ve forgotten many things, but I’ll never forget a melody.”

— Michael Jackson

363. “Me and Janet really are two different people.”

— Michael Jackson

364. “There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.”

— Michael Jackson

365. “Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.”

— Michael Jackson

366. “I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it...”

— Michael Jackson

367. “This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.”

— Michael Jackson

368. “Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.”

— Michael Jackson

369. “My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.”

— Michael Jackson

370. “Tenderoni, you’ve got to be.”

— Michael Jackson

371. “I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.”

— Michael Jackson

372. “I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength.”

— Michael Jackson

373. “With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career – and let’s not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he’ll find me the perfect woman. My response is, ‘As long as she’s not a journalist’.”

— Michael Jackson

374. “Forever continue to love, heal and educate the children. The future shines on them.”

— Michael Jackson

375. “I love performing. It’s a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that’s the time to do it.”

— Michael Jackson

376. “I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.”

— Michael Jackson

377. “When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.”

— Michael Jackson

378. “Being a world traveler, I’m touched and moved by everything that happens, especially to children. It gets me emotionally sick and I go through a lot of pain when I see that type of pain. I can’t pretend as if I don’t see it. It affects me very much.”

— Michael Jackson

379. “I’m not a comedian. I’m not a show host. I’m a musician. That’s why I’ve turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I’m Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I’m not funny?”

— Michael Jackson

380. “If you’re satisfied with everything you’re just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.”

— Michael Jackson

381. “I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That’s fun to me.”

— Michael Jackson

382. “I’m not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it’s my job to help children. And I don’t care if people laugh.”

— Michael Jackson

383. “To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.”

— Michael Jackson

384. “I believe in my heart that the music community will come together as one and rally to the aid of thousands of innocent victims,... There is a tremendous need for relief dollars right now and through this effort each one of us can play an immediate role in helping comfort so many people.”

— Michael Jackson

385. “A lot of people think that I’m a Michael Jackson impersonator.”

— Michael Jackson

386. “I’m a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I’m a musician, I’m a director, I’m a writer, I’m a composer, I’m a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it’s the most expressive of all of the art mediums.”

— Michael Jackson

387. “I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?”

— Michael Jackson

388. “All the things I’ve read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.”

— Michael Jackson

389. “As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.”

— Michael Jackson

390. “It’s been my fate to compensate for the childhood I’ve never known.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

392. “You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.”

— Michael Jackson

393. “Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you’re not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.”

— Michael Jackson

394. “They didn’t trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says ‘A Fine Pilsner Beer’ on the label. It is a crime.”

— Michael Jackson

395. “My idea of magic doesn’t have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.”

— Michael Jackson

396. “The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer’s horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.”

— Michael Jackson

397. “I’m a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It’s real escapism, it’s like everything’s alright. It’s like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything’s fine.”

— Michael Jackson

398. “Live, be, move, rejoice – you are alive! Without the heart’s wise rhythm, we could not exist.”

— Michael Jackson

399. “I love realism. I don’t like plastics. Deep down inside we’re all the same.”

— Michael Jackson

400. “You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.”

— Michael Jackson