Michael jackson quotes

I prefer children because they are honest. They don't want anything from you other than to have fun. Adults have let me down. Adults have let the world down.

They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

I'm always Peter Pan in my heart

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

Look deep within yourself, and you'll find something amazing.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

The distortion of the truth bothers me.

I just don't like being on a lot of different things or being everywhere because I get kind of embarrassed.

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.

I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.

The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.

Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!

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

Find your star and throw it up to heaven. You still have it, don't you?

I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.

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...

When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

I want my work to help people rediscover the child that's hiding in them.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

I must endure...for the world for the children.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.

It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

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

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

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

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

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

Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

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

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

Heal the world, make it a better place.

I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

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

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.

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

One of the best moments is right here (during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997). Right here. It’s right in the middle of the show and it’s my birthday and I’m thousands of miles away from my family. When they surprised me with the full marching band and then they brought out this huge, beautiful birthday cake.. I realized that I’ve got family all over the world. Everywhere I go, because my fans really show me the love and I love them just as much.

I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the inner feeling through your mood...people don't think about the importance of it.

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

Prejudice is ignorance.

If you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up.

Planet Earth, gentle and blue With all my heart, I love you. Dancing the Dream by Michael Jackson

Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.

I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.

I've seen lawyers who don't represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

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

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm a director, I'm a writer, I'm a composer, I'm a producer, and I love the medium. I love film very, very much. I think it's the most expressive of all of the art mediums.

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

Don't be afraid to be different.

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

I 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.

I happen to be colorblind. Racism is not my motto. One day, I strongly expect every color to love as one family.

I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat.

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

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.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

The planets are lining up, bringing brighter days.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

You never know how long you have with someone, so don’t forget to say I love you while you can.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.

I don't know what I could do besides sing but I'm not worried because I figure I've got the rest of my life to find out!

There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.

I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

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

If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby.

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

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.

The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music. You've heard the expression, music of the spheres? Well, that's a very literal phrase. In the Gospels, we read, "And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." That 'breath of life' to me is the music of life and it permeates every fiber of creation.

I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and "I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo.

I see God in the face of children. If there were no children on this Earth, if somebody announced that all kids are dead, I would jump off the balcony immediately. I'm done.

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.

A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.

Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

I'm a lover not a fighter.

Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.

But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.

Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever.

We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

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.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

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.

The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.

I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.