Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room – and God knows I am telling the truth – I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble.”

— Michael Jackson

352. “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

353. “I love the fans and they are the reason for my professional existence. When I’m out there doing a show and I see the fans dancing and singing, that’s what I love the most. It’s just the greatest feeling in the world.”

— Michael Jackson

354. “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

355. “Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.”

— Michael Jackson

356. “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

357. “They scream, they cry, they love, they support, they defend, they listen. My fans are everything.”

— Michael Jackson

358. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

360. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

362. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

364. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

367. “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

368. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

372. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

375. “Tenderoni, you’ve got to be.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

377. “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

378. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

381. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

383. “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

384. “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

385. “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

386. “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

387. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

389. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

391. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

393. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

395. “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

396. “My house is about equidistant from the Young’s brewery and the Fuller’s brewery. This is no accident.”

— Michael Jackson

397. “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

398. “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

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

— Michael Jackson

400. “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