I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.
Michael JacksonONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
Michael JacksonEveryone's Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World's Got A Role For Me I'm So Confused Will You Show To Me You'll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me
Michael JacksonHow would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.
Michael JacksonI wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.
Michael JacksonIf you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
Michael JacksonI don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
Michael JacksonI 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.
Michael JacksonI'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.
Michael JacksonI've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
Michael JacksonI just want to bring the world together. Togetherness is what I want for this planet.
Michael JacksonLeinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.
Michael JacksonJames Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.
Michael JacksonI love my fans to pieces. They're with me. They get it, you know? They get what I'm saying.
Michael JacksonNo! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.
Michael JacksonI want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.
Michael JacksonLife songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.
Michael JacksonIt's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.
Michael JacksonThe teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.
Michael JacksonWhen I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Michael JacksonAnd 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. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.
Michael JacksonThatโs why I hate to take credit for the songs Iโve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, itโs been done and Iโm just a courier bringing it into the world.
Michael JacksonTo me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song thatโll be know for three weeks and then youโll hear nothing else about it. Nobody else will record it and itโll just be gone. But if you do a good ballad, itโll be in the world forever.
Michael JacksonDeep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.
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