Frank Dukes Quotes

A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.

There's something about pop songs that are remembered throughout time.

My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.

The thing I stress to my fans is that I've been making big, universally friendly-type music for a long time now. I never really made underground music.

I don't know exactly what genre to put it in, I just know that I grew up listening to a lot of soul music - Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Whitney Houston. I was inspired by all these great big voices, and I try to do music that's timeless.

Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox populi of America, and then as an adult he shattered racial barriers.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.

I think Lady Gaga is talented. Madonna is talented, and the flair that Michael Jackson had. He was talented! Whatever it is that they do, they must be doing something right. They do have an audience out there, so I respect that.

I love, love, love Michael Jackson.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I used to dress up like Michael Jackson. I didn't have the glove, but I had a red jacket like in 'Thriller.'

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!

The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

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.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.

As a little kid, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized.

I like when pop is still good music; that's what I like.