The Most Beautiful Quotes

“Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the Minneapolis StarTribune that when his body was found in the elevator at Paisley Park, "Prince was wearing a black shirt and pants - both were on backward - and his socks were inside out."

This made no sense to me. The sheer irony of it broke my heart all over again.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“I didn't process it then, but I look back now in awe that this man wearing eyeliner, heels, and ladies’ perfume somehow managed to be more masculine than the burly bodyguard.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Before every performance of New Power Generation—or any version of Prince that I was around—we all gathered in his dressing room to pray. No matter what else was happening, we came together and joined hands. He’d ask for God’s hand on us, that He would give us strength and send angels to protect us from injury, that the Holy Spirit would lift up the music, that the audience would be blessed and happy and safe from harm. It was a powerful ritual, centering, and we never took the stage without it. The Tokyo Dome was filled almost to capacity—an audience of forty-eight thousand—and the torrent of energy that came from the crowd made me feel like a fork in a light socket. I’d spent two-thirds of my life onstage, but this was a whole new level of performance high. The show started with a stirring rendition of “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” and ended with “Peter Gunn” and visited some of his”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Something I eventually learned: Prince's top girlfriend was always in Minneapolis. When you came to Minneapolis, you were the girl on her way in. When you left Minneapolis, you were the girl on her way out.

This would have been a valuable piece of information for me to keep in my own hip pocket.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Those of us who love his music will never allow it to die. As the years go by, his music will take on new dimension for us, because we’ll grow wiser. We’ll get closer to the sun.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Stage diving is not for sissies.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“dopamine is a chemical that blitzes through your brain, making you feel deliciously happy—exactly the way I was feeling at the time. My world was more colorful. The sky was bluer. The sun shone with a very personal intensity. The rain had a secret message for me. My own skin reminded me of gold and roses. It was a high I’ll never forget.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Mean girls are a force of nature that transcends geographical and cultural boundaries.”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Ibrahim “Bobby” Farrah”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Diab—”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince

“Let’s Go Crazy,”
― Mayte Garcia, The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince