Prince Quotes

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

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

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

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

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

My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.

I don't talk about the past.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

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

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

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.

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!

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

I pride myself on working with great musicians.

Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

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.

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

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

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

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.

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.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

Trees are worth more alive than dead

Music is healing...(M)usic holds things together.

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.

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

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

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.

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

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 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.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.

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

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!

Where rational thought is overcome by the strength of physical attraction. This feeling will draw words from the pen that one doesn't even know exist. This feeling will make one combine words that don't go 2gether but just sound so good U not only read them, U can smell them. (Reflecting on that straight up animal lust feeling)

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

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

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

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

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

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

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

Well, my musicians are my friends.

Don't hate me because I'm fabulous

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why ...

I'm a fighter. I'm very competitive.

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.

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 ... One of the reasons we're going out on the road and why we're titling this tour as "Musicology" is because we want to bring that back. We want to teach the kids and musicians of the future the art of song writing, the art of real musicianship.

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

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

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

The gatekeepers must change.

The internet's completely over.

All realities, all dimensions are open to me!

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.

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.

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

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.

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It's the way I am. I love it.

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

It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words they're gone. They'll come back.

Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.

The Bible is a study guide for social interaction.

Nothing comes to sleepers but dreams.

When u go on social media today please make sure to make my death all about u k thanks

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

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

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

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

Any business situation is restrictive.

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.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you.

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

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."

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.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

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.

I have a lot of parties.

If you lend your consciousness to someone else, you're a robot.

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

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.

There are no great jazz-fusion bands.

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

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

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

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

I like arguments.