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1. "There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death."
Author: Adam Kluger

2. "There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins."
Author: Ahmet Ertegun

3. "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."
Author: Austin Mahone

4. "Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy."
Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

5. "I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!"
Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

6. "I cried, I was so overwhelmed to meet Michael Jackson."
Author: Brandy Norwood

7. "And I'm looking at him like, 'Oh my God. This is Michael Jackson'. I fainted, blacked out - like seriously blacked out."
Author: Brandy Norwood

8. "This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with."
Author: Bret Easton Ellis

9. "MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna."
Author: Carson Daly

10. "I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid."
Author: Chance The Rapper

11. "I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke."
Author: Chris Brown

12. "Chris Hedges said that Michael Jackson's memorial service was a variety show with a coffin, that MJ transformed himself through surgery and perhaps female hormones from a brown-skinned African American male to a chalk-faced androgynous ghoul with no clear sexual identity."
Author: Chris Hedges

13. "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."
Author: Christian Audigier

14. "I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston."
Author: Concha Buika

15. "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!"
Author: Connie Britton

16. "I was on tour with Michael Jackson for a while; I did the 'Dangerous' and 'History' tours. I was also on tour with Diana Ross."
Author: Cris Judd

17. "I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent."
Author: Don Hewitt

18. "I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves."
Author: Donny Osmond

19. "I don't know who's worse with little boys, Mario or Michael Jackson."
Author: Dustin Diamond

20. "The real Michael Jackson that has not been seen... with children, one in diapers, the other two toddlers."
Author: Geraldo Rivera

21. "If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."
Author: Gilbert Gottfried

22. "It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who have died are a result of drugs. It is always sad when such a bright light goes out."
Author: Grace Park

23. "Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids."
Author: Hal Sparks

24. "The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it."
Author: Heather Morris

25. "His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us."
Author: Heavy D

26. "I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter."
Author: Jamie Foxx

27. "Michael Jackson is the ultimate traffic accident. People can't take their eyes off him."
Author: Jeff Zucker

28. "There's a theory about fame: the moment it strikes, it arrests development. Michael Jackson remained suspended in childhood, enjoying sleepovers and funfairs; Winona Ryder, an errant teen who dabbled in shoplifting and experimented with pills; George Clooney, a 30-year-old commitment-phobe, never quite ready yet to settle down."
Author: Jemima Khan

29. "Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to."
Author: Jessica Hahn

30. "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.'"
Author: Jimmy Fallon

31. "Al Michaels is a good announcer. I think Keith Jackson is a terrific announcer. I always loved him on Monday Night Football. I never understood why they got rid of him."
Author: John Turturro

32. "I love movin'. I was observant growing up, watching Michael Jackson and John Travolta. I'd close my eyes, see the moves."
Author: Jon Heder

33. "I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson."
Author: Justin Bieber

34. "I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs."
Author: Matisyahu

35. "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."
Author: MC Hammer

36. "The pop star, "Michael Jackson" was believed by some to be a member of the illuminati cult sect and a paedophile, but i'm totally indifferent about this rumor, and i truly love him for his magnanimity towards humanity, and if i was God, i will not hesitate to let him into heaven."
Author: Michael Bassey Johnson

37. "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."
Author: Michael Buble

38. "I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition."
Author: Michael Eric Dyson

39. "Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good."
Author: Ne Yo

40. "The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing."
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof

41. "We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this."
Author: Panayiotis Zavos

42. "I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'"
Author: Raekwon

43. "This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.""Michael Jackson lived here?""No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley."
Author: Rick Riordan

44. "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.'"
Author: Rob Sheffield

45. "I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears."
Author: Romeo Miller

46. "All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video."
Author: Sonu Nigam

47. "It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now."
Author: Taryn Manning

48. "I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come."
Author: Tommy Mottola

49. "And if I was Lisa Marie Presley and I'd told you I was going to marry Michael Jackson because I liked the shape of his nose, or rather, noses, and he's just a sweet boy who loves children, I mean really loves children, and his dramatic change in appearance was undoubtedly a result of a genuine bona fide skin disease, would you have said anything?"
Author: Toni Jordan

50. "Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all."
Author: Vanessa Mae

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