Top 450 Michael Jackson Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “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

402. “Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Michael Jackson

404. “Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.”

— Michael Jackson

405. “Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!”

— Michael Jackson

406. “Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him, that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Dianas life around.”

— Michael Jackson

407. “We must wave our banners even higher and belt out our voices even stronger and be unified as people. We’re going to make it through this!”

— Michael Jackson

408. “There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.”

— Michael Jackson

409. “There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs – defining the programmed machine in each system – and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.”

— Michael Jackson

410. “Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what’s playing inside your head.”

— Michael Jackson

411. ““In Africa,” S. B. once remarked, “if you do well, people close to you will hate you.””

— Michael Jackson

412. “I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That’s the real truth. I love them.”

— Michael Jackson

413. “I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?”

— Michael Jackson

414. “I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.”

— Michael Jackson

415. “I just wish I could understand my father.”

— Michael Jackson

416. “There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.”

— Michael Jackson

417. “I’ve helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.”

— Michael Jackson

418. “Going to my shows, it’s like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.”

— Michael Jackson

419. “I prefer just being with people I like. That’s my way of celebrating.”

— Michael Jackson

420. “Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who don’t get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.”

— Michael Jackson

421. “That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it out into the world.”

— Michael Jackson

422. “The distortion of the truth bothers me.”

— Michael Jackson

423. “Pierre Bordieu was right: “The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict.””

— Michael Jackson

424. “I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.”

— Michael Jackson

425. “Don’t you believe what you read.”

— Michael Jackson

426. “Your cameras can’t control the minds of those who know, that you’ll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.”

— Michael Jackson

427. “I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.”

— Michael Jackson

428. “This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger’s observation that “abstraction’s capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins.””

— Michael Jackson

429. “My mother is fine. For me it perfection.”

— Michael Jackson

430. “I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.”

— Michael Jackson

431. “How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you’re leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty.”

— Michael Jackson

432. “You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.”

— Michael Jackson

433. “When it’s allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new.”

— Michael Jackson

434. “If I’m not creating, I’m not as happy.”

— Michael Jackson

435. “When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.”

— Michael Jackson

436. “I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.”

— Michael Jackson

437. “I want people to hear or watch something I’ve done and feel that I’ve given it everything I’ve got.”

— Michael Jackson

438. “Well, you don’t get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn’t have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.”

— Michael Jackson

439. “An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.”

— Michael Jackson

440. “The actor’s tense, he’s being taped and things are not falling naturally. That’s what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I’m giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.”

— Michael Jackson

441. “You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.”

— Michael Jackson

442. “I think the actor or performer should be – to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you’re going and you can take them anywhere you want to.”

— Michael Jackson

443. “Xs were used because there was no mass literacy – a state we are rapidly approaching once more.”

— Michael Jackson

444. “Children have taught me to always be forgiving.”

— Michael Jackson

445. “Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.”

— Michael Jackson

446. “Children are the only ones who don’t want anything of me.”

— Michael Jackson

447. “You can’t do your best when you’re doubting yourself. If you don’t believe in yourself, who will?”

— Michael Jackson

448. “The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. You couldn’t teach a person what I’ve learned just standing and watching. Some musicians – Springsteen and U2, for example – may feel they got their education from the streets. I’m a performer at heart. I got mine from the stage.”

— Michael Jackson

449. “Well, especially now I come to realize – and then – I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I’d record for hours and hours until it’s time to go to sleep.”

— Michael Jackson

450. “They hunt you. It’s terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.”

— Michael Jackson