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Michael Jackson Interview 1979 (HIGH QUALITY SNIPPETS) — Transcript

by ℓ. мoonwalĸer · 647 words · 91 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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  1. 0:00there are some people who feel that a
  2. 0:04person such as yourself has been on
  3. 0:05stage since the age of five has grown up
  4. 0:08in a fantasy that your life is a fantasy
  5. 0:14I have seen anywhere else not just one
  6. 0:19I mean imagine from the age of five
  7. 0:21you've been able to create a whole world
  8. 0:27it said is how I feel your family was
  9. 0:32not wealthy when you started out you
  10. 0:34were pretty young I don't know if he
  11. 0:35would remember were there a lot of
  12. 0:36sacrifices involved yeah we weren't
  13. 0:40wealthy but we were poor
  14. 0:42my father always prepared for the family
  15. 0:45Amos was my mother always wonderful
  16. 0:47that's very important they made sure we
  17. 0:50you know got the right things for
  18. 0:52ourselves strong parents I think it's
  19. 0:55very important especially in our
  20. 0:56situation if she hit me I would hit her
  21. 0:59back which was terrible and maybe I went
  22. 1:04running around the house and hide not
  23. 1:06that stuff
  24. 1:09but I would really get it more than
  25. 1:11anybody do you think your father was too
  26. 1:13strict yes
  27. 1:15no he's gonna kill me he's gonna keep
  28. 1:20you still worried well he feels that he
  29. 1:24was stretched I'm glad he said it now
  30. 1:27I'll say yes Biddy what does it feel
  31. 1:31like to see that people yelling Michael
  32. 1:34Michael to different people on and off
  33. 1:37stage but I found a personality that's
  34. 1:42that's we I can't get away from that
  35. 1:45it's just the whole overall thing is
  36. 1:48it's hard to deal with it really is it's
  37. 1:52a hard situation and something I have to
  38. 1:54put up with you've always been
  39. 1:58michael jackson on stage yes yes turn
  40. 2:03man
  41. 2:06is a hard situation
  42. 2:09and some I have to put up with
  43. 2:12it must be hard to have real friends yes
  44. 2:21do you feel grown up
  45. 2:22I've been around grown people you know
  46. 2:24since I was five I mean on tour
  47. 2:27backstage without musicians and the
  48. 2:28singers and I felt growing up for ages
  49. 2:32where I live there's other kinds of
  50. 2:35sounds and music that I love to do it
  51. 2:39hurts what is inside of me and I can't
  52. 2:41get out and is hidden from the world
  53. 2:43studio 54 is your favorite
  54. 2:47that's a wonderful feeling when I walk
  55. 2:48in just like almost like going to a play
  56. 2:52performance I usually go there and Liza
  57. 2:55stare Liza Minnelli and she pulls me out
  58. 2:57of the floor and we get to dancing and
  59. 2:59let's just we just have the time of our
  60. 3:01lives
  61. 3:01Brooke Shields supposed to be my
  62. 3:05favorite listen I like songs they touch
  63. 3:07the heart and that stay with a person
  64. 3:09for a lifetime and that's also important
  65. 3:11to me into the people and that's what
  66. 3:15I'm here for
  67. 3:16and I get things done and we had one on
  68. 3:18the Peter are you willful in what way I
  69. 3:20mean are you you have your own ideas of
  70. 3:22what you want to do and you won't we're
  71. 3:23gonna do them oh yeah I deal to feeling
  72. 3:26and then you want to act on it yeah
  73. 3:29actually you become like a stage Eddie
  74. 3:32but when there are off days and there is
  75. 3:35no show I'm up at night dancing just the
  76. 3:37same it's really strange
  77. 3:42can't help it bigger man as a person who
  78. 3:47achieves his goal and make all his
  79. 3:50dreams come true for himself and for the
  80. 3:52people and what you enjoy the most about
  81. 3:55being on stage is it's a great question
  82. 3:58so I thought I'm doing my job and that's
  83. 4:01what makes me happy so we're getting
  84. 4:03deep in one another and it's a wonderful
  85. 4:06thing
  86. 4:07Michael's not here a lot of things
  87. 4:09create themselves suspect to be it'll
  88. 4:12happen I believe in the force and
  89. 4:19it'll tell me win he wanted his music to
  90. 4:25make a difference
  91. 4:25he wanted his music to heal

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