110+ Michael Jackson Quotes On Music, Dance And Dreams

Michael Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He became one of the world's best-selling music artists and was dubbed the "King of Pop" for his contributions to music, dance, and fashion. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, with estimated sales of over 65 million copies worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Michael Jackson on music, life, dance.

Top 10 Michael Jackson Quotes

1. To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.
2. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
3. If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.
4. When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.
8. The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.
9. Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
10. Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.

Michael Jackson Image Quotes

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. — Michael Jackson

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it. — Michael Jackson

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

Michael Jackson Short Quotes

• Look deep within yourself, and you'll find something amazing.
• Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.
• No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
• I really do wish people could understand me some day.
• Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
• Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.
• Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity.
• My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.
• Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.
• I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told.

Michael Jackson Quotes About Music

Whatever you believe, you become. — 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 mantra that soothes the soul...something our body has to have. It's important to understand the power of music. — Michael Jackson

No! 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 Jackson

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same. — Michael Jackson

I believe that through music we can help heal the world. — Michael Jackson

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create. — Michael Jackson

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

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song. — Michael Jackson

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Life

I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition. — Michael Jackson

And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then why do we keep strangling life wound this Earth, crucify its soul. Though it's plain to see, this world is heavenly. We could be God's glow... Heal the world. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.' — Michael Jackson

When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful and new. — Michael Jackson

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 ! — Michael Jackson

I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do. — Michael Jackson

Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on. — Michael Jackson

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music. — Michael Jackson

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Dance

I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

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

Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world. — Michael Jackson

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. — Michael Jackson

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something. — Michael Jackson

I love the fans and they are the reason for my professional existence. When I'm out there doing a show and I see the fans dancing and singing, that's what I love the most. It's just the greatest feeling in the world. — Michael Jackson

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another. — Michael Jackson

When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school. — Michael Jackson

Who will dance on the floor in the round? — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Love

I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

Before you Judge me, Try hard to Love me — Michael Jackson

I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it. — Michael Jackson

Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. — Michael Jackson

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

We need Peace, We need Giving, We need Love, We need Unity. — Michael Jackson

People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world. — Michael Jackson

Love, joy and peace for the world, that’s what I want...peace for the world and love. — Michael Jackson

It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Dreams

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

You can always dream, and your dreams can come true. But you have to make them come true — Michael Jackson

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 conscience and subconscience can help make reality. — Michael Jackson

I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams. — Michael Jackson

The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. — Michael Jackson

I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are Although I know we've drifted far! — Michael Jackson

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. — Michael Jackson

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

Michael Jackson Quotes About Success

I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth. — 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

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

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. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About God

I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine. — Michael Jackson

I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That’s where my heart is, that’s all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people’s faces and make their hearts feel happy. — Michael Jackson

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

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all. — Michael Jackson

If I am guilty of anything it is of believing what God said about children: 'Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.' In no way do I think that I am God, but I try to be God-like in my heart. — Michael Jackson

Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts. — Michael Jackson

What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody. — Michael Jackson

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About World

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

Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need. — Michael Jackson

Heal the world, make it a better place. — Michael Jackson

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us. — Michael Jackson

Loyalty is such a rare quality; but my fans are the most loyal in the world. — Michael Jackson

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

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. — Michael Jackson

I think about our planet. I mean how to make it a better planet. The global warming issue is a concern to me very much. Just make the world a better, happier place. It's our home. I'd like to see us do a better job of taking care of it. — Michael Jackson

Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers. — Michael Jackson

How 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 Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Education

Forever continue to love, heal and educate the children. The future shines on them. — Michael Jackson

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying. — Michael Jackson

We are the world, we are the children. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Divine

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. — Michael Jackson

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved. — Michael Jackson

I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. — Michael Jackson

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Teenager

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. — Michael Jackson

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. — Michael Jackson

I was a veteran before I was a teenager. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes About Loved

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic. — Michael Jackson

I'm a lover not a fighter. — Michael Jackson

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it. — Michael Jackson

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

I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late. — Michael Jackson

You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last! — Michael Jackson

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do. — Michael Jackson

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

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

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message. — Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Famous Quotes And Sayings

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings. — Michael Jackson

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it. — Michael Jackson

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

Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder. — Michael Jackson

Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is. — Michael Jackson

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

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

Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans. — Michael Jackson

I've been through hell and back. I have, to be honest, and still I'm able to do what I do and nothing can stop me. No one can stop me, no matter what. I stop when I'm ready to stop. You know, and I'm just saying, you know, I will continue to move forward no matter what. — Michael Jackson

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling. — Michael Jackson

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction — Michael Jackson

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

People think they know me, but they don`t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me. — Michael Jackson

With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'. — Michael Jackson

You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict." — Michael Jackson

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die. — Michael Jackson

I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words. — Michael Jackson

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

I'm a strong person. I'm a warrior and I know what is inside of me. — Michael Jackson

I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible. — Michael Jackson

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. — Michael Jackson

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

Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home. — Michael Jackson

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

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike. — Michael Jackson

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth. — Michael Jackson

You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. — Michael Jackson

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it. — Michael Jackson

I'll never let you part, for you're always in my heart — Michael Jackson

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad. — Michael Jackson

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head — Michael Jackson

The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual. — Michael Jackson

Life Lessons by Michael Jackson

1. Michael Jackson taught us that hard work and dedication can pay off, as he worked tirelessly to become one of the most successful and influential musicians of all time.
2. He also showed us the importance of staying humble and kind, even when faced with immense fame and success.
3. Lastly, Michael Jackson's music and artistry served as a reminder that creativity and self-expression can be powerful tools for inspiring and uniting people around the world.