Michael Jackson Quotes

~ LOVE ~

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

“I say, ‘You should blanket me’ or ‘you should blanket her’, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It’s a way of showing love and caring.”- Michael Jackson

“Love is the human family’s most precious legacy. Its richest bequest. Its golden inheritance.”- Michael Jackson

“The courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.”- Michael Jackson

“For me, Love is something very pure.”- Michael Jackson

“Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it’s right. My love life is like my music.”- Michael Jackson

“Its all for Love.. L.O.V.E.”- Michael Jackson

“I’m a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.”- Michael Jackson

~ MUSIC & DANCE ~

“To me, ballads are special, because you can have a pop song that’ll be know for three weeks and then you’ll hear nothing else about it.  Nobody else will record it and it’ll just be gone.  But if you do a good ballad, it’ll be in the world forever.”- Michael Jackson

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

“When you have a special gift you don’t realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.”- Michael Jackson

“I can’t take credit for it because its Gods work. He’s just using me as the messenger.”- Michael Jackson

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

“Music is a very important and powerful substance, and all the planets in the universe make music. It’s called music of the spheres. They all make a different note; they make harmony. So there’s harmony even in the universe as we speak.”- Michael Jackson

“With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.”- Michael Jackson

“Each song is like a child that I nourish and give my love to.  But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song.”- Michael Jackson

“They say parenting is like dancing. You take one step, and your child takes another.”- Michael Jackson

“Once I get on stage, something happens. The rhythm starts and the lights hit me and the problems disappear.” ~Michael Jackson (1988)

“I feel like I’ve done what I’m supposed to do on Earth.. I’m compelled to do these things.”- Michael Jackson

“I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.”- Michael Jackson

“I love to dance and sing.”- Michael Jackson

“Im putting my heart and soul into it because Im not sure if Im gonna do another one after this.. This will be my last album.. I want it to be something that touches the heart and emotions of the world. I want to reach every demographic I can through love and joy and simplicity of music.”- Michael Jackson, April1999

“You give of your talent, of your ability.. The talent that was given you by the Heavens. That’s why we’re here, to bring a sense of escapism in time of need. If you’re a painter you paint; if you’re a sculptor, you sculpt; if you’re a writer, you write; if you’re a songwriter, you give songs; if you’re a dancer, you give dance. You give people some love and some… some bliss and some escapism, and to show that you truly care from the heart, and be there for them. Not just from a distance, but show you really care. You be there for them. And that’s what I did. It’s an important thing.”- Michael Jackson, Oct. 2001

“The songwriting process is something very difficult to explain because it’s very spiritual.. You really have it in the hands of God, and it’s as if it’s been written already – that’s the real truth. As if it’s been written in its entirety before were born and you’re just really the source through which the songs come.. And I feel guilty having to put my name, sometimes, on the songs that.. I do write them. I compose them, I write them, I do the scoring, I do the lyrics, I do the melodies but still.. It’s a work of God.”- Michael Jackson, Oct. 2001

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

~ HEALING THE WORLD ~

“Forever, continue to love, heal and educate the children, the future shines on them.” – Michael Jackson

“Nothing is more important than our children. They are the future. They can heal the world. It is our obligation to be there for them.”- Michael Jackson

“I think its important to help out as much as you can. Just to help one person means a lot. Its a big step forward.”- Michael Jackson

“Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Dont be looking at all the other things. Start with you”- Michael Jackson

“We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts, and we open our minds.”- Michael Jackson

“Be humble, believe in yourself, and have the love of the world in your heart.”- Michael Jackson

“The only reason I’m going on tour is to raise for the newly formed, ‘Heal The World’, an international children’s charity, that I’m spearheading to assist children and the ecology. My goal is to gross $100 million by Christmas, 1993. I urge every corporation and individual who cares about this planet and the future of the children, to help raise money for the HTW charity. The Heal The World Foundation will contribute funds to pediatric aids in honor of my friend, Ryan White. I’m looking forward to this tour, because it will allow me to devote time to visiting children all around the world, as well as to spread the message of the global love, in the hopes that others too will be moved to do their share to heal the world. Thank you for coming. I love you very much.” – Michael Jackson, Feb 3rd 1992, speech announcing the Dangerous tour at the Pepsi press conference.

“Im saying heal the planet, heal the world, save our children, save the forest. Theres nothing wrong with that, right?”- Michael Jackson

“I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world.”- Michael Jackson

“Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy.”- Michael Jackson, April 1999

~ GOD ~

“God gave me a gift & I have to use it responsibly by giving back. I’ll do it until I have pennies left or God calls me home.”- Michael Jackson

“For me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within.. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me”- Michael Jackson

There have been times in my life when I wonder[ed] about God’s existence. When Prince smiles, when Paris giggles, I have no doubts.”- Michael Jackson

“I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.”- Michael Jackson

“I see God through my children. I speak to God through my children. I am humbled for the blessings He has given me.”- Michael Jackson

~ FANS ~

“I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That’s the real truth. I love them.”- Michael Jackson

“I promise To love and cherish each of my sweet-faced fans forever..”- Michael Jackson, 1972

“I just do what I do & I love doing it. I pray that Im doing my job, what Im here to do on Earth.. Because I love the fans.”- Michael Jackson

Over the years we became a family. You are all my family. My children are your children.”- Michael Jackson, 2003

“I love my fans to pieces. They’re with me. They get it, you know? They get what I’m saying.”- Michael Jackson

“I have the greatest fans in the world. I love them.. All of them, I really do.”- Michael Jackson

“My fans.. They cry in all the same places. Become hysterical, faint in the same places. Theres a commonality. We are all the same.”- Michael Jackson

~ JUSTICE ~

“I dont believe in the justice system. I have seen things go on in the world & how people get away with them”- Michael Jackson

“God and the truth are on our side. We will be victorious.”- Michael Jackson

“My level of trust will change. There’s a lot of conspiracy going on, I’ll say that much. A lot of it.”- Michael Jackson

I have suffered through many hurtful lies and references to me as ‘Wacko Jacko’… This is intolerable and must stop.” ~Michael Jackson, 2004

“You have to deal with their jealousy. They’re all talking about you. When they stop talking, you have to worry.”- Michael Jackson

“Sometimes I think leave me alone. What have I done to you for you to attack me in such away. It really hurts my heart”- Michael Jackson

“In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner”- Michael Jackson

“I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.”- Michael Jackson

~ HOLIDAYS ~

“I missed out on Halloween for years and now I do it. It’s sweet to go door-to-door & people give you candy.” ~Michael Jackson

“I love to trick or treat… I love dressing up like some kind of monster… and knocking on doors. Nobody knows it’s me and I get candy.” ~MJ (2001)

“I always thought Halloween and ‘Thriller’ fit each other like a glove.” – Michael Jackson (October 31, 2008)

~ “The essence of Halloween is for children to witness the kindness of strangers.. It brings the world together.”- Michael Jackson

“I cry behind my mask.I really do when I go w/ them&ppl say,”Open ur bag,” & I think,look what I hv been missing.I didn’t know that this.”- Michael Jackson

[Q:Do you take Prince & Paris trick-or-treating?]  MJ: “Absolutely, we have a family that we go with in the area and we give them the candy.  I want them [Prince&Paris] to see that people can be kind. We get it in a bag and then [whispering] I exchange their candy for candy eyeballs.”- Michael Jackson

“I love trick or treat. It’s one of my favorite ones.”- Michael Jackson

“I love dressing up like some kind of monster or something and knocking on the doors. Nobody knows it’s me, and I get candy.”- Michael Jackson

“It’s sweet to go door-to-door and people give you candy. We need more of that in the world. It brings the world together.”- Michael Jackson