Michael Jackson Quotes

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

Michael Jackson

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Want

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Feel

• I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

  

  Vanity
  • Music
  • Old
  • Vanity

• I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Community
  • College

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.

  

  Jack Black
  • Music
  • Career
  • Dark

• When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Never
  • Acting

• Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Love
  • Feel

• The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Great
  • Music
  • Money

• When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Know

• I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Music
  • School
  • Style

• It's weird, in New York, it's like the big theme of everything is folk music and interacting with people. Maryland is where the landscape of our music comes from, it was more like, let's walk around. People are saying that we are part of some sort of folk scene. We don't feel connected with it. We do live in the city, and communicate with people. It's all folk music.

  

  Avey Tare Animal Collective
  • People
  • Music
  • Scene

• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Experiences

• It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Truth

• Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it's your job to chip away and find out what's in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Job
  • Song
  • Fish

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

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Music
  • Dancing
  • Performing