Celebrate Quote by Betsy Hodges

Funny, I think that the only reason I'm compared to Prince is because of my skin color.

— Velveteen Dream

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on…

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Prince played a big influence on my style.

— Velveteen Dream

Prince was a hero. He was the brother, the black man that was a little different. As a kid, you thought, 'Wow, he's different.…

— Fantastic Negrito

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

— Max Martin

Prince was a child of our city, and his love of his hometown permeated many of his songs. Our pride in his accomplishments permeates…

— Betsy Hodges

Prince is king to me. As this half-naked, short black guy who looked like a girl in the 70s and 80s, he was talking…

— Robyn

“Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the…

— Mayte Garcia

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could…

— Robyn

“For since a Prince by birth has fewer occasions and less need to give offence, he ought to be better loved, and will naturally…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David…

— Warryn Campbell

It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a…

— Niccolo Machiavelli