Top 80 Prince Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Everything has changed for me since I’ve changed my name. It’s one thing to be called Prince but it’s better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.”

— Prince

52. “When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.”

— Prince

53. “The internet is completely over.”

— Prince

54. “Nothing comes to sleepers but dreams.”

— Prince

55. “Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, “Why do you call me Prince?” And people say, “Because you are a prince to us.” Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, “I don’t mind your calling me that.””

— Prince

56. “I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, “They’re gone,” and they’ll come back.”

— Prince

57. “You can always tell when the groove is working or not.”

— Prince

58. “Record contracts are just like – I’m gonna say the word, slavery.”

— Prince

59. “I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.”

— Prince

60. “I don’t believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.”

— Prince

61. “I’m going down 2 Alphabet Street I’m gonna crown the first girl that I meet I’m gonna talk so sexy She’ll want me from my head 2 my feet.”

— Prince

62. “All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?”

— Prince

63. “Don’t know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They’re just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it’s those crazy little kangaroo crackers.”

— Prince

64. “Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.”

— Prince

65. “There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.”

— Prince

66. “You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!”

— Prince

67. “Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age – we’re programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.”

— Prince

68. “At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.”

— Prince

69. “She’s always in my hair.”

— Prince

70. “I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.”

— Prince

71. “All realities, all dimensions are open to me!”

— Prince

72. “If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they’re gone. They’ll come back.”

— Prince

73. “Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented.”

— Prince

74. “Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.”

— Prince

75. “I would die for you.”

— Prince

76. “There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.”

— Prince

77. “What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.”

— Prince

78. “I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.”

— Prince

79. “Any charitable act is love in motion, and love needs no publicity because love just is.”

— Prince

80. “Artists have the ability 2 changes lives with a single per4mance.”

— Prince

81. “Peace will come when it becomes irrelevant to strike out at people. When you see that it’s striking out against your own genome.”

— Prince

82. “The candles.” He asked if I’d heard of the devil’s interval, or the tritone: a combination of notes that created a brooding, menacing dissonance.”

— Prince

83. “A lot of people have the idea that I’m a wild sexual person... I’ve lectured quite a few people out there. I’ll say, ‘Think about what you’re saying. How would you react if you were me?’ I ask that question a lot. ‘How would you react if you were me?’ They say, ‘Okay, okay.”

— Prince

84. “The Internet’s completely overThe Internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

— Prince