Michael Jackson Quotes

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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.

Michael Jackson
It's black, it's white, it's tough for you to get by.

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I'm actually relaxed onstage. Totally relaxed. It's nice. I feel relaxed in the studio too. I know whether something feels right. If it doesn't, I know how to fix it. Everything has to be in place and if it is you feel good, you feel fulfilled.

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

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Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

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

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Billie Jean is not my lover.
She's just a girl who claims that
I am the one,
But the kid is not my son.

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This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

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I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.

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When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.

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No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

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What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

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With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.

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Leave me alone. Stop it!
Just stop doggin' me around.

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I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way.

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I said you wanna be startin' somethin'
You got to be startin' somethin'
It's too high to get over
Too low to get under
You're stuck in the middle
And the pain is thunder.

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Hold me
Like a River Jordan
And I will then say to thee
You are my friend.
Carry me
Like you are my brother
Love me like a mother
Will you be there?

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Heal the world
Make it a better place
For you and for me
And the entire human race.
There are people dying
If you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me.

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The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

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"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

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They told you don't you ever come around here
Don't wanna see your face you better disappear. The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear. So beat it, just beat it.

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I love E.T. 'cos it reminds me of me. Someone from another world coming down and you becoming friends with them and this person is, like, 800 years old and he's filling you with all kinds of wisdom and he can teach you how to fly. That whole fantasy thing which I think is great. I mean, who don't wanna fly?

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

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I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the American Music Awards. Is it really entertaining for me to get up there and crack a few weak jokes and force people to laugh because I'm Michael Jackson, when I know in my heart that I'm not funny?

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We are the world,
We are the children,
We are the ones
To make a better day.

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

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It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

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Change is inevitable and always good in one sense or the other.

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I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

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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. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

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