Michael Jackson Quotes

"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?"

"The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."

"Before you judge me, try hard to love me."

"I'm a perfectionist. I'll never be satisfied."

"Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become."

"People think they know me, but they don't. Not really."

"I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily."

"I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make those wishes come true."

"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life."

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone."

"There's nothing that can't be done if you raise your voice as one."

"Just because it's printed doesn't mean it's the gospel."

"There's a lot of love in the world, if you just look for it."

"I love to create magic. I love to create something that's so strange that people are dazzled."

"People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow."

"The most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love."

"I always want to be able to bring something new to the world."

"Music is my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world."

"To give someone a piece of your heart is worth more than all the wealth in the world."

"I believe that we are all connected to each other, and that we should treat each other with love and respect."

"There's a time when you have to be a grown-up and take responsibility for your actions."

"People are always willing to think the worst of you."

"I don't think there's anything that can't be done if you put your mind to it."

"I want to be a great artist, a great entertainer, and a great human being."

"I think the greatest thing about music is that it brings people together."

"Every day, create your history."

"Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul."

"Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile."

"I am never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."

"The world should be full of love. Love is the most important thing in the world."

"Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator."

"To me, the greatest education is watching the masters at work."

"I like to improve rather than compete."

"People who don't know me may think I'm strange, but that's because they don't know me."

"All of us are products of our childhood."

"I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin. It's something I cannot help."

"I was a veteran before I was a teenager."

"I remember going to the recording studio when I was little and watching the musicians work. I loved it."

"I want to make a difference in the world, to make it a better place for everyone."

"Please don't stop loving me. Don't stop wanting me. Don't stop needing me."

"Disneyland, amusement parks, arcade games – I adore all that stuff because when I was little, it was always work, work, work."

"Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song."

"When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings."

"Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink, but also of wisdom written on the human heart and soul."

"You can't hurt me; I found peace within myself."

"I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world."

"Often people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself."

"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."

"In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard."

"Just doing as well as you did last time is not good enough."

"I'm a perfectionist; I'll work until I drop."

"My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it."

"The Wizard of Oz has secrets that are just too much. Fairy tales are wonderful."

"What happened to truth? Did it go out of style?"

"There's a whole psychological reason for those cartoons about good against evil. They help us try to be something."

"Natural highs are the greatest highs in the world."

"I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole new world in books."

"When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm."

"In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love."

"Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life."

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

"When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave."

"It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person."

"But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence."

"And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view."

"If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked."

"I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder."

"They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another."

"Study the greats and become greater."

"I really put my soul into my work. I'd die for it. That's how I am."

"I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true."

"A wish is more than a wish; it's a goal. It's something your conscious and subconscious can help make a reality."

"You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?"

"Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want."

"Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined."

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

"A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place."

"I'm actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It's nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too."

"I have always wanted to be able to tell stories that came from my soul."

"I'd like to sit by a fire and tell people stories—make them see pictures, make them cry and laugh."

"There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes."

"People write negative things because they feel that's what sells. Good news to them doesn't sell."