Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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KELLY JONES My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
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AMY WINEHOUSE When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince....
R. KELLY From Michael Jackson to Peggy Lee, I like it all.
CYRILLE AIMEE Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These ...
LL COOL J My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval f...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven...
DANIEL BARENBOIM All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. T...
SONU NIGAM I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of...
YOUNG JEEZY I mean, Janet Jackson? She's like Michael Jackson with hair.
RONNIE SPECTOR I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
KIANA TOM I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were gre...
DAVE BRUBECK Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson,Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael J...
KANYE WEST I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You...
CHARLIE DANIELS It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound n...
TARYN MANNING This is an all-out vindication for Michael Jackson and his supporters.
DAN ABRAMS (Martin) Zeno and (Michael) Prince are handling the ball and had nine turnovers between them.
BOB KNIGHT What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These g...
BRUNO MARS When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don't grow u...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how ...
BRANDY NORWOOD I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I...
LINDSEY STIRLING I think I'm supposed to "take a sad song and make it better," but that's beyond my musical ability
SOPHIA BENNETT It's going to be the first time in a while that all the brothers and sisters will all be together in...
REGGIE MILLER The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
VIJAY Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lio...
NE-YO I had just done a Michael Jackson 30th anniversary celebration. We did well over $20 million. And we...
DAVID GEST What happens if aliens take over and their leader is actualy Michael Jackson, we all suffer
BOBMCFRANK MCONALD If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to Th...
JACK BLACK I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more c...
TRACEY ULLMAN You look at Beethoven's sketch book and he's working things out, trying this, trying that. Mozart di...
GEORGE HANSON Michael Jackson is an inspiration and we are approaching him,
LOUIS WALSH Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving...
DAVID AMRAM The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and th...
LIL' KIM I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
KAREN O I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 ...
JAMES BROWN I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 t...
JAMES BROWN Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquel...
PHARRELL WILLIAMS Living with Michael Jackson.
MARTIN BASHIR I leave the hip thrusts to Michael Jackson.
JUSTIN BIEBER One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten gra...
CHANCE THE RAPPER When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.
CHARICE PEMPENGCO You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a ...
BRUNO MARS Michael Jackson, the 49ers and the Lakers - that's what I know about the '80s.
DULE HILL Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra...
TRACY MORGAN Every day before school, I would bang away on Czerny, Bach, Beethoven and Mozart-and throw in a litt...
LAMAR ALEXANDER If reggae comes from another country, you can have the relationship to reggae that I have to rock. B...
MARLON JAMES Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't w...
ERNEST NEWMAN I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out ...
MISSY ELLIOTT Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misg...
JANE ASHER I like jazz of course, but jazz is almost classic. I like some Italian pop music. When I was a teena...
CECILIA BARTOLI My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied pia...
PHILLIPA SOO We [Michael Jackson and I] talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most pe...
MACAULAY CULKIN My favorites growing up were always Billy Joel, Michael Jackson... and Placido Domingo.
JOSH YOUNG I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't ...
NE-YO The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standin...
RICK RIORDAN Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Mich...
TINASHE I have been around for 35 years. I have met Elvis Presley, Elton John, John Lennon, all the Beatles....
URI GELLER Don't keep a man guessing too long--he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
MAE WEST I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, ...
JENNIFER LOPEZ As an entertainer, Justin Timberlake has learned from the past. He can cradle a mic stand like Elvis...
ROGER STONE I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music th...
ALLEN IVERSON I'm a mash-up of everyone. My influences would be Michael Jackson, Brandy, Aaliyah - those types...
KEKE PALMER [Bain said Jackson] felt that there was some betrayal there ... Living With Michael Jackson.
MARTIN BASHIR Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson....
AUSTIN MAHONE Michael Jackson has an insatiable appetite for money.
GORDON AUCHINCLOSS Was Michael Jackson ever on a single call?
ROBERT SANGER Michael Jackson Raped Zac Studeman, he told me
BOBMCFRANK MCONALD Dewey is so old, Michael Jackson stopped watching.
FRANKIE MUNIZ If I was drowning you would part the sea
And risk your own life to rescue me . . .
JAMIE MCGUIRE I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS Michael Jackson, he used to chase relevancy all the time. He always wanted to go a little bigger and...
BABYFACE He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
RICK RIORDAN Rachel bit her lip. "I hope you're right. I'm a little worried. What if someone asks what's on the n...
RICK RIORDAN I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...
JAY-Z I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare ...
BO BURNHAM I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture...
ICE CUBE I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a ...
JAMIE FOXX Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which bel...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
GABY HOFFMANN He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dr...
SARAH J. MAAS If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Oth...
DYLAN LAUREN Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly...
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VANESSA RAY I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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VANESSA FERLITO I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every hars...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We have been trained to broadcast our successes and hide our failures. But the truth is this: our fa...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most p...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are o...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I've worked with homeless kids, kids in foster care, and I've never met a kid who couldn'...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.
VANESSA CARLTON If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
VANESSA CARLTON I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel...
VANESSA CARLTON I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.
VANESSA CARLTON I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up...
VANESSA CARLTON I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are...
VANESSA CARLTON Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
VANESSA CARLTON But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intima...
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