People Quotes

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

People are afraid of Beatle music. They are still afraid of my songs. Because they got that big image thing: You can't do a Beatle number... You can't touch a Lennon song; only Lennon can do it... It's garbage! Anybody can do anything. A few people in the past have done Beatle songs. But in general they feel you can't touch them. And there are so many good singles that the Beatles wrote that were never released. Why don't people do them? It's good for me; it's good for Paul. It's good for all of us.

Just before I record, I go buy a few albums to see what people are doing. Whether they have improved any, or whether anything happened. And nothing's really happened. There's a lot of great guitarists and musicians around, but nothing's happening, you know.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you.

If all of the people in Hollywood had plastic surgery and went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Me and Janet really are two different people.

Often, people just don't see what I see. They have too much doubt. You can't do your best when you're doubting yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?

Even people who aren't geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.