M. Jackson Quotes

Chop your own path. Get off the car track

Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

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.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

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.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

I believe that all people living together in unity is one of the most important messages we can teach our children.

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

Everyone else is just mad cause i came from the bottom with out them

I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants.

When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

I just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.

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

Children have taught me to always be forgiving.

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

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.

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he's gone, the more young people appreciate his art. 'What's Going On' was a work of genius far ahead of it's time.

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

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Become someone's hero.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

My confidence and drive to go play came when I realized how gifted I was at such a young age and how much bigger my build was than the kids my age.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

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.

A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

Don't you believe what you read.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

Its all for love... L.O.V.E.

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.

Michael is a gift from Allah, and he is taking him back. The world didn't appreciate him.