110+ Prince Quotes On Death, Minnesota And Grace

Prince was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He was a musical innovator who was known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, and wide vocal range. He released 39 albums throughout his career, selling over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Prince on love, life, death.

Top 10 Prince Quotes

1. A strong spirit transcends rules.
2. When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
3. There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.
4. Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
5. I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
6. Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.
7. If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
8. Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?
9. Act your age, not your shoe size.
10. The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Prince Image Quotes

Act your age, not your shoe size. — Prince

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. — Prince

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries. — Prince

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? — Prince

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. — Prince

Prince Short Quotes

• I just want your extra time and your.......... Kiss
• Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
• Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
• Trees are worth more alive than dead
• Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
• Don't hate me because I'm fabulous
• A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.
• The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.
• God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.
• You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

Prince Quotes About Love

Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It's not a joke. They care. — Prince

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older. — Prince

Love isn't love until it's past. — Prince

Prince Quotes About Life

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince

Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it. — Prince

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life. — Prince

C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need. — Prince

I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life. — Prince

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know? — Prince

Prince Quotes About Music

When i want to hear new music, i make it — Prince

Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift. — Prince

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong. — Prince

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. — Prince

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. — Prince

What's missing from pop music is danger. — Prince

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time. — Prince

The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out. — Prince

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to. — Prince

Music is real. It affects people; it's real. — Prince

Prince Quotes About People

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue. — Prince

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat! — Prince

There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park. — Prince

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies. — Prince

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people. — Prince

People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em. — Prince

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way. — Prince

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that. — Prince

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated. — Prince

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' — Prince

Prince Quotes About Play

It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows. — Prince

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head. — Prince

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus. — Prince

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next. — Prince

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play. — Prince

I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert. — Prince

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys. — Prince

Prince Quotes About Songs

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach. — Prince

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale. — Prince

You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state. — Prince

Prince Quotes About Musicians

Tell me a musician who's got rich off digital sales. Apple's doing pretty good though, right? — Prince

Well, my musicians are my friends. — Prince

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits. — Prince

I pride myself on working with great musicians. — Prince

Prince Famous Quotes And Sayings

Act your age, not your shoe size. — Prince

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can. — Prince

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. — Prince

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete. — Prince

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us. — Prince

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them? — Prince

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? — Prince

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry. — Prince

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll. — Prince

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea. — Prince

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely. — Prince

Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers. — Prince

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free. — Prince

You can always tell when the groove is working or not. — Prince

The Internet's completely over. [...] The Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. [...] They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you. — Prince

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy. — Prince

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always. — Prince

It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more — Prince

Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun. — Prince

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. — Prince

I knew a girl named Nikki I guess u could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine She said "how'd u like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind. — Prince

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again. — Prince

There's a dark side to everything. — Prince

Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not. — Prince

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet. — Prince

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. — Prince

Being a Jehovah's Witness, I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote. — Prince

Like books and black lives, albums still matter. — Prince

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed. — Prince

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. . — Prince

My hair is capable of doing a lot of different things. — Prince

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. — Prince

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam. — Prince

I don't talk about the past. — Prince

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me. — Prince

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery. — Prince

I'm not one to get bad reviews. — Prince

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business. — Prince

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays. — Prince

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is. — Prince

Time is a mind construct. It's not real. — Prince

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it's made by kids. — Prince

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster. — Prince

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. — Prince

I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive. — Prince

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem. — Prince

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young. — Prince

It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth. — Prince

Everyone has a rock bottom. — Prince

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused. — Prince

The internet's completely over. — Prince

The only thing I could think of - because I really don't like categories - but the only thing I could think of is inspirational, and I think music that is from the heart falls right into that category. — Prince

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot. — Prince

Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool. — Prince

Nobody sues their fans. — Prince

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would. — Prince

My bankers are very happy with me. — Prince

The gatekeepers must change. — Prince

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you. — Prince

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen. — Prince

I have a writing addiction. — Prince

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me. — Prince

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay. — Prince

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better. — Prince

Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that." — Prince

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything. — Prince

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic. — Prince

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me. — Prince

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. — Prince

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius. — Prince

Instead of hate, celebrate. — Prince

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now. — Prince

Life Lessons by Prince

1. Prince taught us to be true to ourselves and to never give up on our dreams, no matter how hard it may seem.
2. He showed us that it is possible to be successful and still remain humble and kind.
3. Prince also taught us to be fearless in the face of adversity and to never let anyone tell us we can't do something.