Top 77 Prince Quotes

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what’s already there.

Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

I’m a Jehovah’s Witness.

I record all the time.

I don’t know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.

Most bands out there are basically pretty boring. I try to affect people inside their bodies.

I have a writing addiction.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

At one time, MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

All you see on television are debased images.

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.

I do pay performance royalties on others’ songs I perform live, but I’m not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

From its conception and that one and only meeting, ‘HITNRUN’ took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that’s what freedom feels like, ‘HITNRUN’ is what it sounds like.

Tell me a musician who’s got rich off digital sales. Apple’s doing pretty good though, right?

Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that’s fine with me as long as it doesn’t bother them that they’re not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

Each audience is different.

‘When Doves Cry’ came out – it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ was number one on R&B stations, and there’s nothing that’s been like that on radio since.

You can’t understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state.

The internet’s completely over.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

When everyone recognizes Jehovah’s name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.

The music, for me, doesn’t come on a schedule. I don’t know when it’s going to come, and when it does, I want it out.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn’t know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

I think you’ll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.

My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn’t allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn’t as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

I’m not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can’t get out of. I can hold my head up… a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn’t a bunch of scandal in my life.

I like arguments.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

Technology is cool, but you’ve got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I always wanted to make a three-record set. ‘Sign o’ the Times’ was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven’t been domesticated.

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn’t sure God had a relationship with me.

Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.

You can always tell when the groove is working or not.

My hair is capable of doing a lot of different things.

I have a lot of parties.

The gatekeepers must change.

I don’t vote and I got nothing to do with it.

Nobody sues their fans.

What’s missing from pop music is danger.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would – I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I’ve never stopped writing, never stopped recording.

‘Billboard’ needs to tell the truth, shake things up.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Record contracts are just like – I’m gonna say the word – slavery. I would tell any young artist… don’t sign.

I don’t talk about the past.

I’m real easy-going.

Being a Jehovah’s Witness, I don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don’t vote.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

I ain’t mad at anybody. I don’t have any enemies.

Just sharing music with each other – that’s cool. It’s the selling that becomes the problem.

You don’t need a record company to turn you into anything.

You don’t have to watch ‘Gossip Girl’ to have an attitude.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.

When it comes to the video channels and the programs, the radio stations, the music is geared towards kids, and it’s made by kids.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

I’m not one to get bad reviews.

Oh, I love critics. Because they love me. It’s not a joke. They care.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.

So much has been written about me, and people don’t know what’s right and what’s wrong. I’d rather let them stay confused.

There’s this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.