I think the first album I bought was The Jackson Five, but the first CD I was given was ‘Cotton-Eyed Joe,’ the single! Bless my mum – don’t know what she was thinkin’!
In the words of Michael Jackson: I’m a lover, not a fighter.
When I go back home, I feel like Michael Jackson in Memphis. They love me.
I’ve been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back – I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
I want to go get that 145-pound belt. That’s definitely a huge motivation for me. I believe with Greg Jackson’s help, I can get that done.
I don’t think that Michael Jackson died. He’s probably dead now, but I don’t think he died when they said he did. I think he wanted out of the game anyway, so he just disappeared.
When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn’t wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That’s still a brand to me.
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
Peter Jackson’s instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.
I’m the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.’
Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.
If the Treasury Department should not remove Hamilton from the $10 bill, what should they do? The answer is fairly simple: Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
Psy is fantastic. He’s shifted the planet. He’s got the whole world dancing. And it’s a rarity in this world. Only four people made that happen in history – James Brown, Michael Jackson, yours truly and Psy.
I love working out to Michael Jackson.
It’s like, I don’t think you understand, Michael Jackson’s bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don’t care who wrote the songs.
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
When you have a chance to get Phil Jackson to run your team, you just do it, plain and simple.
The song that’s affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts ‘rapping.’
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock’s attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child’s mind.
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don’t understand what happened to me.
Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson’s Neverland!
A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in ‘Les Miz.’ I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.
My favorite artist has not changed since I was five years old: Michael Jackson.
I was 17 when Peter Jackson asked me to be in ‘Heavenly Creatures.’
I am a huge Michael Jackson fan.
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
I vividly remember my mom would put on this VHS of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits music videos. I’d watch that all the time.
You know, people’d always ask ‘Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?’ They never seen the house I’m running from.
In ‘The Hobbit,’ there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.
Of the members of the band, I’m the biggest Michael Jackson fan.
Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.
My absolute earliest influences would be people like Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Outkast, ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ era 50 cent.
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn’t matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.
I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.
If it weren’t for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.
Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are so, so good at what they do in the mixed martial arts game.
My role models came in my imagination, from what I’d heard on the radio or on record… Vera Lynn I loved, but I’d only ever heard her on the radio. Gospel singers, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson. So it was in my head that I visualised the emotion but no way to see how people do it.
‘Miss Jackson’ is about something that actually happened to me when I was younger. I hadn’t really talked about it, and I felt that if I didn’t, I would keep thinking about it; it would drive me crazy.
Phil Jackson is a role model, and basically a coaching idol of mine. He’s someone I really tried to model some of my coaching philosophies after.
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I’d listen to Wanda Jackson and think, ‘How did she do that?,’ and lift the needle and try it myself.
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
Janet Jackson – I enjoy her style and her dancing.
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
I was so excited to audition for ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ I knew it was going to be huge. Maybe, by some small chance, Peter Jackson’s a ‘Star Trek Deep Space Nine’ fan.’
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson… all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
At the ‘L.A. Times,’ I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Eminem, White Stripes. And I could understand how almost everybody I interviewed had a sense of artistry.
As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
Everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in ‘Percy Jackson,’ right?’ I’m like, ‘No, different guy.’
Cee Lo – to me, his voice is classic; I’ve personally said to him before, ‘For me, your voice is as special as a Michael Jackson vocal,’ because of what he can do, his range. I said that to him, and I mean that.
I’m incredibly uncommitted to party politics. I vote Labour but only because Glenda Jackson was my MP and I loved her on ‘Morecambe & Wise.’
I have dreams of working with some of the greatest to ever do it, including Sade, Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Babyface, Smokey Robinson, and Timbaland.
I remember standing across from Rampage Jackson when I was younger – I watched him when I was coming up – and then I was fighting him in Japan.
Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He’s just straight up and doesn’t beat around the bush. Tough love.
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher’s stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
