29 Quotes & Sayings By Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was the multi-platinum selling King of Pop. His music transcends gender, race, and culture. His songs became anthems for a generation, and his video-choreographed performances became a spectacle. He sold more than 750 million records worldwide and became the world's best-selling recording artist of all time Read more

Jackson received a record 33 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Broadway League, and numerous other awards. In 2001 he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Jackson 5. In 2009, Billboard named him the top male solo artist of the past 25 years.

In 2013 he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was posthumously awarded with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and...
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If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. Michael Jackson
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood...
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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
Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems...
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Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. Michael Jackson
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I'm starting with the man in the mirror, I'm asking him to change his ways; And no message could have been any clearer, If you wanna make the world a better place, Take a look at yourself, and then make a change! Michael Jackson
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's...
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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true Michael Jackson
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
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Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. Michael Jackson
But for me the sweetest contact with God has no...
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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. Michael Jackson
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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. Michael Jackson
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Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche. Michael Jackson
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair,...
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We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. Michael Jackson
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People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song. Michael Jackson
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Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be? Michael Jackson
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How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy Every soldier dies in his glory Every legend tells of conquest and liberty. Michael Jackson
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Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. Michael Jackson
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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. Michael Jackson
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But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human. Michael Jackson
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All of us are products of our childhood. Michael Jackson
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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. I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become thevictor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing..and dancing..and dancing. Until there is only..the dance. Michael Jackson
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I'm starting with the man in the mirror Michael Jackson
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I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want. Michael Jackson
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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? Michael Jackson
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In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk off. Now, if it was a good thing, they wouldn’t do that. I mean, would somebody drop something beautiful in my pocket and just walk off? But I don’t want to have anything to do with any of that. I mean, as corny as it sounds, but this is how I really believe: Natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. Who wants to take something and just sit around for the rest of the day after you take it (drugs), and don’t know who you are, what you’re doing, where you are? Take in something that’s gonna inspire you to do greater things in the world. Michael Jackson
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I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am. Michael Jackson
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I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am Michael Jackson
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In many ways an artist is his work. It's difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn't work, I can feel it, but when I turn in a finished album – or song – you can be sure that I've given it every ounce of energy and God-given talent that I have. Michael Jackson
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Whenever I saw a sunset, I would quietly make my secret wish right before the sun tucked under the western horizon and disappeared. It would seem as if the sun had taken my wish with it. I'd make it right before the last speck of light vanished. Michael Jackson
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My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it. Michael Jackson
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And 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 Jackson