Michael Jackson Interview 1979 (HIGH QUALITY SNIPPETS) — Transcript
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- 0:00there are some people who feel that a
- 0:04person such as yourself has been on
- 0:05stage since the age of five has grown up
- 0:08in a fantasy that your life is a fantasy
- 0:14I have seen anywhere else not just one
- 0:19I mean imagine from the age of five
- 0:21you've been able to create a whole world
- 0:27it said is how I feel your family was
- 0:32not wealthy when you started out you
- 0:34were pretty young I don't know if he
- 0:35would remember were there a lot of
- 0:36sacrifices involved yeah we weren't
- 0:40wealthy but we were poor
- 0:42my father always prepared for the family
- 0:45Amos was my mother always wonderful
- 0:47that's very important they made sure we
- 0:50you know got the right things for
- 0:52ourselves strong parents I think it's
- 0:55very important especially in our
- 0:56situation if she hit me I would hit her
- 0:59back which was terrible and maybe I went
- 1:04running around the house and hide not
- 1:06that stuff
- 1:09but I would really get it more than
- 1:11anybody do you think your father was too
- 1:13strict yes
- 1:15no he's gonna kill me he's gonna keep
- 1:20you still worried well he feels that he
- 1:24was stretched I'm glad he said it now
- 1:27I'll say yes Biddy what does it feel
- 1:31like to see that people yelling Michael
- 1:34Michael to different people on and off
- 1:37stage but I found a personality that's
- 1:42that's we I can't get away from that
- 1:45it's just the whole overall thing is
- 1:48it's hard to deal with it really is it's
- 1:52a hard situation and something I have to
- 1:54put up with you've always been
- 1:58michael jackson on stage yes yes turn
- 2:03man
- 2:06is a hard situation
- 2:09and some I have to put up with
- 2:12it must be hard to have real friends yes
- 2:21do you feel grown up
- 2:22I've been around grown people you know
- 2:24since I was five I mean on tour
- 2:27backstage without musicians and the
- 2:28singers and I felt growing up for ages
- 2:32where I live there's other kinds of
- 2:35sounds and music that I love to do it
- 2:39hurts what is inside of me and I can't
- 2:41get out and is hidden from the world
- 2:43studio 54 is your favorite
- 2:47that's a wonderful feeling when I walk
- 2:48in just like almost like going to a play
- 2:52performance I usually go there and Liza
- 2:55stare Liza Minnelli and she pulls me out
- 2:57of the floor and we get to dancing and
- 2:59let's just we just have the time of our
- 3:01lives
- 3:01Brooke Shields supposed to be my
- 3:05favorite listen I like songs they touch
- 3:07the heart and that stay with a person
- 3:09for a lifetime and that's also important
- 3:11to me into the people and that's what
- 3:15I'm here for
- 3:16and I get things done and we had one on
- 3:18the Peter are you willful in what way I
- 3:20mean are you you have your own ideas of
- 3:22what you want to do and you won't we're
- 3:23gonna do them oh yeah I deal to feeling
- 3:26and then you want to act on it yeah
- 3:29actually you become like a stage Eddie
- 3:32but when there are off days and there is
- 3:35no show I'm up at night dancing just the
- 3:37same it's really strange
- 3:42can't help it bigger man as a person who
- 3:47achieves his goal and make all his
- 3:50dreams come true for himself and for the
- 3:52people and what you enjoy the most about
- 3:55being on stage is it's a great question
- 3:58so I thought I'm doing my job and that's
- 4:01what makes me happy so we're getting
- 4:03deep in one another and it's a wonderful
- 4:06thing
- 4:07Michael's not here a lot of things
- 4:09create themselves suspect to be it'll
- 4:12happen I believe in the force and
- 4:19it'll tell me win he wanted his music to
- 4:25make a difference
- 4:25he wanted his music to heal
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