This Is It (2009)

Michael Bearden: Self

Quotes 

• Michael Bearden : We need *you* to do the sound check; cause, there can't nobody hear what you need to hear. Some people might not want to have that bass.

  Michael Jackson : I want it the way I wrote it, I mean like the audience hears it. So, whatever the records doing, that's how I want it.

  Michael Bearden : Yeah, that's what - that's what its going to sound like. We got to get closer to what you want. And if you want to get a little more booty on something, something else, you know what I mean. You know what I'm sayin'?

  Michael Jackson : [laughs]  A little more booty. That's funny.

• Michael Jackson : We gotta let it simmer. We got a moment where it has to simmer.

  Michael Bearden : That's right.

  Michael Jackson : You're not letting it simmer. Just bathe in the moonlight. You have to let it simmer.

• Michael Bearden : It's really cool for me as a Musical Director because I need the artist to be hands on and MJ is always hands on with everything that he does. He knows all of his records. He knows all his tempos. He knows all of his keys of songs.

• Michael Bearden : Yeah, MJ take it from the top again. See what we got simmer wise.

  Jonathan Moffett : One, two, three, four

  Background Singers : [singing]  Do-do, Do-do - Do-do, Do-do - Do-do, Do-do - Do-do

  Michael Jackson : Pretty baby with the high heels on, Give me fever, Like I've never, ever known...