HOW TO BECOME A LEGEND 
    
1:Put on a spectacular Superbowl half-time show before the largest audience in TV history.

2:Use your extraordinary popularity, influence, time, energy, money, and heart to help children heal the world.

3:Stun the Motown 25th Anniversary audience with a legendary performance that leaves everyone moonstruck.

4:Record ‘Thriller’ and watch it become the number one largest-selling album of all time.

5: Bring your enormous talent to the creation of new style videos that are really mini-movies with imaginative stories and mind-blowing effects.

6:Capture an armful of eight Grammys, the most ever won in a single year.

7:Tour the world over, making new friends everywhere you go. Break all existing attendance records, while visiting over thirty countries, many of them more than once, and bring the best in contemporary concert entertainment to over ten million loving fans.

8:Create an international anthem with a superstar cast that becomes the top-selling single of all time.

9:Make a serious effort to have four consecutive number one hits before graduating from grade school.

10:But first and foremost, if you are going to be a true legend, try to be born with a lot of talent and the willingness to take the plunge.

      Grammy Legend Award (March 1993)

             (Oprah...chose to leave one out )

"He'd ask me to come down to Hayvenhurst, his home then, and watch him testing moves and I'd get very emotional. I literally would be teary-eyed; He'd make his body move in ways that were jaw-dropping. I don't believe that there will ever be anyone who reaches anywhere near his level of talent. When Michael hit that stage he transformed into a performer that will never exist again."
-Paula Abdul

photo edited by me

"He's a genius. Just to be in the same room with him, I felt everything I wanted to accomplish in life has been achieved. That aura...That's how incredible that aura is. We're about to shake the world up, man. You know how you'd be with somebody and you can't even explain the feeling? I used to sit and think, 'How does somebody sell so many records and dominate a whole business genre, to a point where nobody can't be a part of that without associating with you?' The way he thinks...
Some artists think regional, some think national. I was thinking international. He thinks planets. It's on another level."

Akon  2007

"Michael seemed to have the appearance of an ancient king.
There was something imperial about him.
So absolutely comanding with his presence..."

Aphrodite Jones

                                                 Amazing artwork by Christophe Boulmé
                                                  http://www.chriboul.com

"When I first met him it was really love at first sight. When you get to know Michael, you understand his nature of charisma. … He looks at the world with the innocent eyes of a child."

                                 Sophia Loren 

▼ WHO'S BAD ▼

Some people are entertainers and some people are great entertainers. Some people are followers and some people make the paths and are pioneers.
– Michael Jackson

"Sure he's a little afraid of people. When you have people that from the time you're a little kid want a part of you, they want your clothes, they want your hair -- you're going to get a little nervous around people."

Vince Patterson

"The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it"