Musician Quotes

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

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

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

I just wish I could understand my father.

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.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

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.

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.

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

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

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

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

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.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

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.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.