Jackson Quotes

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The PR person came and went. It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very interesting.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

My favorite place in the whole world is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.

You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

My top three were Jim Brown, Wilt Chamberlain and Bo Jackson.

I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson.