Skip to content
quotesby

About this quote

What does it mean?
The speaker describes someone as the ultimate artist who became the King of Pop.
In plain terms
This artist is the model everyone wants to follow and achieved legendary status.
What can you take from it?
Excellence inspires others to follow your path.

Where it applies

  • introducing an artist
  • praising a career

Putting it to work

  • honoring a peer
  • marketing a talent

Questions to consider

  • What makes an artist iconic?
  • Who do you look up to?

Another view

Status is subjective and changes over time.

More from Michael Jackson

  1. He is a very smart cookie, Michael. He knows what he wants, he knows what he is doing. I have nothing but admiration. Also, he is a very kind person.

    Permalink to quote #39
  2. My feelings about Michael Jackson are simple: I think that he's a human being like everyone else and I'm a huge fan of him.

    Permalink to quote #41
  3. Of every album I have listened to, the best of the year by far has been Invincible. Michael Jackson deserves a lot more credit than he is getting, one of the m…

    Permalink to quote #38

Related quotes

  1. 'I've changed music four or five times. What have you done of any importance other than be white?'

    Miles DavisMiles Davis quote #2
  2. You have long known what I have tried to establish: the right to dare everything; yet the difficulty I have had finding enough money to live on has been too gr…

    Paul GauguinPaul Gauguin quote #22
  3. He got used early to the adulation of a wide public and eventually decided that he could do without it; long before the end, fame had to chase him far harder t…

    Peter CookPeter Cook quote #50