Michael Jackson Quotes

I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words.

I respect the secrets and magic of nature. That's why it makes me so angry when I see these things that are happening, that every second, I hear, the size of a football field is torn down in the Amazon. I mean, that kind of stuff really bothers me. That's why I write these kinds of songs, you know. It gives some sense of awareness and awakening and hope to people. I love the Planet, I love the trees. I have this thing for trees - the colors and changing of leaves. I love it. I respect those kind of things. I really feel that nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the planet. Because the planet is sick, like a fever. If we don't fix it now, it's at the point of no return. This is our last chance to fix this problem that we have, where it's like a runway train. And the times has come, This Is It. People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done... We have four years to get it right. After that it would be irreversible. Let's take care of the planet.

Love lives forever.

It's all for love... With the love, L.O.V.E.

What I do when I write is that I'll do a raggedy, rough version just to hear the chorus, just to see how much I like the chorus. If it works for me that way when it's raggedy, then I'll know it will just work... Listen to that, that's at home. Janet, Randy, Me... Janet and I are going "Whoo, Whoo... Whoo, Whoo..." I do that same process with every song. It's the melody, it's the melody that's most important, If the melody can sell me, then I'll go to the next step. The idea is to transcribe from what's in your mentality onto tape. If you take a song like "Billie Jean," Where the bass line is the prominent, dominant piece, the protagonist of the song, the main driving riff that you hear, getting the character of the riff to be just the way you want it to be, that takes a lot of time. Listen, you're hearing four basses on there, doing four different personalities, and that's what gives it character, but it takes a lot of work.

The industry, It's at a crossroad, There's a transformation going on. People are confused, what's going on, how to distribute and sell music. The internet kinda threw everybody for a real loop. 'Cause it's so powerful, kids love it so much. The whole world is at their fingertips, on their lap. Anything they want to know, anyone they want to communicate with, any music, any movies... The thing is it just took everybody for a loop. Right now, all these Starbucks deals and Wal-Mart deals, direct to artists, I don't know if that's the answer. I think the answer is just phenomenal, great music. Just reaching the masses. I think people are still searching. There's not a real music revolution going on right now, either. But when it's there, people will break down a wall to get to it. I mean, 'cause before Thriller, it was the same kind of thing. People were not buying music. It helped to bring everybody back into the stores, so when it happens, it happens.

Ever since I was a little boy, I would study composition. And it was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky that influenced me the most. If you take an album like Nutcracker Suite, every song is killer, every one. So I said to myself, 'Why can't there be a pop album where every...' — People used to do an album where you'd get one good song, and the rest were like B-sides, they'd call them "album songs" — and I'd say to myself 'Why can't every one be like a hit song? Why can't every song be so great that people would want to buy it if you could release it as a single?. So I always tried to strive for that. That was the purpose for the next album.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation. Lets face it, who wants mortality?

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarrass easily.
I am speechless about the idea of putting music fans in jail for downloading music. It is wrong to illegally download, but the answer cannot be jail. Here in America we create new opportunities out of adversity, not punitive laws, and we should look to new technologies like Apple's new Music Store for solutions. This way, innovation continues to be the hallmark of America. It is the fans that drive the success of the music business.

I put a lot of mannequins in my room in the past, and I still have mannequins in my room, because I used to be very lonely, painfully lonely. You have no idea. I used to walk the streets looking for people to talk to. I'm talking about the height of one's career…. I would walk up to them, strangers, and say, "will you be my friend?" They'd go, "my god, Michael Jackson!" and that's not what I wanted.

Not only were we practicing, we were nervous rehearsing, because he would sit in a chair with a belt in his hand, and if you didn't do it the right way, he would tear you up. Really get you...We were terrified of him. So terrified, I can't tell you. I don't think he realized how scared...scared...I mean SCARED. So scared that I would regurgitate. (with emphasis) Mmm-hmm. (reporter asks Michael what caused the reaction) His presence, just seeing him...And I was so fast, he wouldn't catch me half the time, but when he did, oh my God, it was bad.

The minute I started breaking the all-time record in record sales...
I broke Elvis's records, I broke Beatles records...
The minute it became the all-time best-selling album in the history of the Guinness Book of World Records... OVERNIGHT they called me a freak.
They called me a homosexual.
They called me a child molester.
They said I bleached my skin.
They made everything to turn the public against me.
This is all complete, complete conspiracy: you have to know that.
You know, it's time for (unintelligible)
It's time for a change.
Let's not leave this building and forget what has been said.
Put it into your heart.
Put it into your subconscious mind, and let's do something about it.
We have to, we have to.
Because it's been a long LONG time coming, and a change has got to come.
So let's, let's hold our torches high, and get the RESPECT that we deserve.
I love you, I ~love~ you.
Please don't put this in your heart today and forget it tomorrow.
Or we will not accomplish our purpose.
We will not have accomplished our purpose if that happens.
This has got to stop.

...so much joy to the world...and the system, meaning the record companies, totally took advantage of me.
This is very important, what we're fighting for, because I'm tired, I'm really REALLY tired of manipulation.
I'm tired of the how the press is manipulating everything that's been happening to this situation.
They do not tell the truth, they lie. They manipulate, they manipulate our history books.
The history books are not true: it's a lie. The history books are lying. You need to know that, you must know that.
All the forms of popular music: from jazz to hip-hop to be-bop to .. to SOUL.
To um, uh, dances, from the cake-walk. to the jitter-bug, to the Charleston, to uh, breakdancing.
All of these are forms of black dancing.

I know my race. I just look in the mirror. I know I'm black.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. They steal. They cheat. They do whatever they can, especially the black artists.… Sony's Tommy Mottola is the president of the record division. He is mean. He is a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish.