“I won’t go to any more funerals as long as I live,” says Quincy Jones, who helped launch the career of the late Michael Jackson. “I can’t handle it.”
In lieu of attending the King of Pop’s funeral, Quincy wrote a moving tribute to Michael in the Los Angeles Times. “Michael was so shy he’d sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat there with my hands over my eyes with the lights off,” he writes.
“I promise you in 50, 75, 100 years, what will be remembered is the music. It’s no accident that almost three decades later, no matter where i go in the world, in every club and karaoke bar, like clockwork, you hear “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Wanna Be Starting Something,” “Rock With You,” and “Thriller.” [Source: Us Weekly; Photo: Getty Images]
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Now, I know money is sometimes what rules people, but sometimes doing the right thing is priceless. Michael loved Neverland, it was his dream world. It was a place where people could come and escape from the realities of illness and despair, especially for the children. It was here that Michael Jackson made his home, and it should be here that Michael Jackson is laid to rest. Neverland should remain a place for everyone to come, and pay their respects to Michael, as well as, experiencing all the love and joy that Michael brought into our world. Our world today is changing; it is not very often that any of us can find a place, where we can experience the beauty of life, love, and unity amongst all people. This is what Michael has given to us, and allowed us to experience and share. No amount of money in the world can buy this, it is priceless. I don’t want to see the beauty of Michael parish because of the greed and selfishness of a few. I want life, love, and unity to live on, with hopes that love can concur all. Michael was blessed to give us these values, and we, as a nation, for the benefit of everyone in society, must ensure that we hold tight to these treasured beliefs. Without these values, Who are we as a people, or even worse, what have we become?
I completely support words Emily A. Cabbagestalk-Fisher Says, also I consider that really because of avidity, envy, greed, people lose human advantages. People are ready to think out any fables if only to spoil a life to that, in their opinion to whom money or success it is given easily, without knowing actually so much the person in the achievements and forces and inspiration, and nerves, experiences puts. The life of each person should be only it and nobody has the rights something to change in it, to interfere with private life and the more so to slander the person if only to take hold of that part of property (simply so because wanted and is not present mind to earn most and to become successful) which to these people it seems that the person is not worthy. Michael Jackson was the big talent, thanking its creations I all the same I understand that children (songs about which he) sang this the most expensive that there are on the earth, and also native people. Thanks Michael Jackson for its tremendous creations and for that that it was such remarkable person.