George Michael Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by George Michael:
I am a political person, though not with a big P.
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If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
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I write about my life.
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I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.
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I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
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Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
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I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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I'm just not security-minded.
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It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
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It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
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I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
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I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
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I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
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I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
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The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.
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You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.
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I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
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I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
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My ego is sated.
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I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.
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I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
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Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
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I can't bear Catholicism.
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It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
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I'm lucky to be alive.
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I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what's important.
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I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.
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I think the media is a real demon.
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The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.
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I went to prison, I paid my bill.
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There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
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I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.
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My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
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The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
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Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
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I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
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I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
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I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
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I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.
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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
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It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.
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If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.
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I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
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The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
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I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
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I've always been the porky boy in my head.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.
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I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
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Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We're taught that you have to grab what you can before it's gone. It's almost as if there isn't time for compassion.
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