Michael Jackson Quotes

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.

Music to me is spontaneous, writing is spontaneous and it's all based on not trying to do it. From beginning to end, whether it's writing a song, or playing guitar, or a particular chord sequence, or blowing a horn, it's based on improvisation and spontaneity.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

My best takes aren't necessarily take five or take six. My best takes are usually take two.

I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.

When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of the Stanislavski school who think about detail.

I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

It's TV: you just have to jump in and just do it. You don't have time to think about it. You don't have time to write a history, which makes it even better. I go with first instincts.

I just sing. I sing whatever I can.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

I play like I always used to, with no agenda. And, every once in a while, I will play something I really hadn't thought about or even intended to play. And I'll go, 'Whoa! What was that?'

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.

I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy to anything.

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.