Jackson Quotes

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

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.

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 leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

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

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

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