Prince Quotes:

Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.

source: - "Duchess of Cambridge gives birth to baby boy, third in line to the throne" by Caroline Davies and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2013.

Topics: Baby, Unique, People

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

Topics: Giving, Long, Trying, Serious Subjects

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

Topics: Real, Thinking, People, Real Music, Music Lover

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.

Topics: America, Hip Hop, Focus

Act your age, not your shoe size.

source: - "Kiss". Song by Prince Rogers Nelson, 1986.

Topics: Shoes, Age, Size, Uptown, Funny Happy Birthday

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.

source: - "Tribute to Prince Part 1". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 22, 2016.

Topics: Reflection, People, Wish

Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is 'Is there anybody I`m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I`d get nervous?' If not, then you`re cool.

source: - "The Night I Partied at Prince's House ... But He Never Came Downstairs" by Chris Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 21, 2016.

Topics: Mean, Rooms, Saws

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.

Topics: Giving, People, Support

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

Topics: Music, Keys, Aspect

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

Topics: Years, Sometimes, Overnight Success

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

Topics: Beautiful, New Beginnings, Blessing, Beautiful Day, Starting A New Beginning

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

Topics: Groove

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

Topics: Believe, Way, Findings

No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.

Topics: Children, Atmosphere

A strong spirit transcends rules

source: - "Genius in short" by Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2006.

Topics: Strong, Spirit, Strong Spirit

I just want your extra time and your.......... Kiss

source: - Song: Kiss extended version

Topics: Kissing, Want, Extras, Extra Time

How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

Topics: Mother, Father, World

Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers.

Topics: Crazy, Want, Littles, Kangaroos

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

Topics: Mean, Men, Doors, New Car

The Internet's completely overThe Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. 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.

Topics: Mtv, Numbers, Gadgets, Outdated

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Topics: Answers, Causes, Misery

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

Topics: Compassion, Action, Boundaries, No Boundaries, Boundless

The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.

Topics: Voice, Mind, Alchemy

Don't hate me because I'm fabulous

Topics: Hate, Fabulous, Hate Me, Don't Hate

The internet is completely over.

Topics: Internet

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

Topics: Book, Black, Tonight, Black Lives

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

Topics: Mtv, Hips, Outdated

As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.

Topics: Hero, Judging, People

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

Topics: Eight, President, Found

Love isn't love until it's past.

Topics: Love, Past, Love Is

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

Topics: Names, Jehovah

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

source: - "Tribute to Prince, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2016.

Topics: Hurtful, World, Add

Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free.

Topics: Clothes, Hair, Mind, Mind Free, Uptown

C'mon everybody, yeah, this is your life I'm talking about a revolution we gotta organize We don't need no segregation, we don't need no race New age revelation, I think we got a case. I'm OK as long as u are here with me Sexuality is all we ever need.

Topics: Thinking, Race, Talking, New Age

I knew a girl named Nikki I guess U could say she was a sex fiend I met her in a hotel lobby Masturbating with a magazine. She said "How'd U like 2 waste some time?" And I could not resist when I saw little Nikki grind.

Topics: Girl, Sex, Magazines, Hotel Lobby

There is a park that is known 4 the face it attracts colorful people whose hair On 1 side is swept back The smile on their faces It speaks of profound inner peace Ask where they're going They'll tell U nowhere They've taken a lifetime lease On Paisley Park.

Topics: Taken, Hair, Profound, Paisley, Lease

Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it.

Topics: Real, Space, Thrill, Funky

Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.

Topics: Girlfriend, Fun, Home, Seventeen Years Old

It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more

Topics: Lonely, Morning, Rain, Can't Sleep, I'm Lonely

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

Topics: Personality, Rich, No Money

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

Topics: Men, Judging, Bodyguard

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

source: - "Prince never apologized for who he was. For that, he was an inspiration" by Colby Itkowitz, www.washingtonpost.com. April 21, 2016.

Topics: People, Who You Are, Despite

No member of the animal kingdom nurses past maturity, no member of the animal kingdom ever did a thing to me. Its why I don't eat red meat or white fish, don't give me no blue cheese. Were all members of the animal kingdom, leave your brothers and sisters in the sea.

Topics: Brother, Animal, Past, Red Meat, Blue Cheese

I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

Topics: Jehovah, Witness

When i want to hear new music, i make it

Topics: Want

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

Topics: Birthday, Party, Young Birthday

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

source: - Song: 1999 The Hits Mix

Topics: Party, Lasts, Life Is, Transience, Singer-songwriters

Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search

Topics: Pay

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Topics: Music, Temptation, Morality

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

Topics: Artist, Law, Records, Licensing

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?

Topics: Clothes, Dancing, Singing

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

source: - "Prince: 'I'm a musician. And I am music'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

Topics: Real, Mind, Constructs

There's a dark side to everything.

Topics: Dark, Sides, Dark Side

Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

Topics: Change, Careers, Two

I have a writing addiction.

Topics: Writing, Addiction

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

Topics: Albums, Rooms, Enough

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet.

Topics: Girl, Sexy, Feet

I want to win, so sometimes I get a little overanxious.

Topics: Winning, Want, Littles

As long as I do not take myself too seriously I should not be too badly off.

Topics: Long, Should

All realities, all dimensions are open to me!

Topics: Reality, Dimensions

Trees are worth more alive than dead

Topics: Tree, Alive, Rainforest, Deforestation

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Losing Someone, African American, Singer-songwriters

There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.

source: - Song: Papa, Album: Come

Topics: Rain, Rainbow, Ends

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Respect Yourself, Given, Approach

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Getting Older, Together, Down And

When I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Song, Believe, Writing

What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Negative, Doe, Firm Beliefs, Belief In God

A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

Topics: Real, Real Friends, Mentor, Payroll

I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: People, Debt, Pay

God's a funky little dude because everyone's looking for Him and no one can find Him.

Topics: God, Religious, Littles, Funky

Sometimes it [music in my head] is a curse, but it's also a blessing. It is a gift that I am completely grateful for. That's why I keep [making music], because I don't want to be ungrateful for the gift.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Grateful, Blessing, Want

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Skins, Able, Speak, Thick Skin

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

source: - "Harry On... Himself". www.mirror.co.uk. September 15, 2005.

Topics: Children, Growing Up, Littles

I’m still very much a kid inside myself.

source: - "Prince Harry on emotional coming-of-age tour". Interview with Seth Doane, www.cbsnews.com. March 14, 2012.

Topics: Kids, Stills

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Our Generation, People, Generations, Payroll

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Names, Reverence For Life, I've Changed, Things Have Changed

Repetition is beautiful.

Topics: Beautiful, Repetition

Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Kids, Giving, Legacy

The only thing I could think of - because I really don't like categories - but the only thing I could think of is inspirational, and I think music that is from the heart falls right into that category.

source: - "Musician Prince Dies at Age 57". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 21, 2016.

Topics: Fall, Heart, Thinking

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Topics: Trying, World, Notes, Musicianship

Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam.

source: - Source: www.npr.org

Topics: Keys, Drug, Jam

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word, slavery.

source: - "Prince: ‘Record Contracts Are Just Like — I’m Gonna Say the Word – Slavery’" by Rachel Brodsky, www.spin.com. August 9, 2015.

Topics: Records, Slavery, Contracts

Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Heart, People, Black

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

source: - Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Topics: Stars, War, Believe, Old Days

Even the soldiers need a break sometimes.

source: - "Song: "Musicology" ("Musicology")". April 20, 2004.

Topics: Soldier, Needs, Sometimes

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.

Topics: Kids, Young