Top 100 Boy George Quotes
#1. A lot of Donna Summer and things that maybe weren't trendy anymore or weren't hip in gay clubs but you'd hear them at Taboo.
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#2. Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go ...
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#3. Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.
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#4. I used to think of George Michael as being mechanical, like a scientist in a white coat, working in a laboratory, creating perfect harmonies, and all the while I was secretly admiring him.
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#5. I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
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#6. Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.
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#7. What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
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#8. I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.
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#9. I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.
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#10. Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
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#11. Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.
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#12. The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
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#13. I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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#14. I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.
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#15. You find out so many interesting things when you're not on drugs.
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#16. I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
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#17. I'm Catholic In My Complications And Buddhist In My Aspirations'
~George O'dowd
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#18. Go home. Let me do my community service.
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#19. I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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#20. Leigh [ Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.
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#21. I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.
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#22. Well there are those who think you can only succeed at someone else's expense.
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#23. My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
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#24. Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as weird as you anticipate. Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
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#25. Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
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#26. Jail's like school but you can't leave.
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#28. I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
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#29. Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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#30. A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.
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#31. I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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#32. I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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#33. There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.
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#34. I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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#35. I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer ... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?
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#36. My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.
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#37. The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.
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#38. A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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#39. I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.
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#40. Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.
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#41. We were fighting about nothing important while dreaming of the same things.
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#42. I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.
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#43. That's the strange thing about love. One minute you can have your tongue up someone's arse, and the next you can't even communicate.
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#44. Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
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#45. You get much more done if you go to bed early and get up early.
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#46. The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.
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#47. Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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#48. A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.
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#49. Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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#50. I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
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#51. And being gay isn't so easy, either I've always said that if anyone ever thought I was straight they must need glasses - but when I finally came out and said, "Yes, I do sleep with men and I'm gay," yeah, I lost record sales. There's no question - big, big time.
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#52. Leigh [ Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.
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#53. Luckily, I'm not one of those people who wants to be young; it's never bothered me.
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#54. The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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#55. I'm being honest, I say what I think.
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#56. I wear makeup and dress this way because I think it makes me look better. I am not doing it to get people to stare at me. If I wanted to do that I could just put a pot on my head, wear a wedding dress, and run screaming down the street.
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#57. She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
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#58. In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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#59. I never thought I'd be doing records a year after I started - I had no idea it would last as long as it did.
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#60. I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.
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#61. I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.
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#62. Being in the Boy Scouts, you don't think about whether people are gay or straight. You're busy putting up tents and learning to cut sausages.
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#63. I suppose all of those New Romantic clubs were quite up their own asses in a way. Well, Taboo was up its own ass in a different way, but not in terms of rules.
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#64. Leigh [Bowery ] obviously loved having me in the club because I would attract media, and he loved and lived for his column inches.
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#65. People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
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#66. Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.
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#67. I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.
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#68. When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.
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#69. Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.
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#70. I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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#71. After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.
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#72. I don't really feel part of the pop scene.
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#73. I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
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#74. I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.
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#76. The world is less homophobic, depending on where you are in the world. As a gay man I feel very strongly about those issues around the world - there've been huge changes and developments, but there are still places where things are scary.
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#77. I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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#78. Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.
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#79. I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.
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#80. The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.
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#81. I've never been a bad person and always had quite good morals. There's always been a side of me that's been quite proper, but it's got distracted here and there. Now I'm the person I should be.
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#82. When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.
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#83. When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
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#84. I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.
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#85. Leigh Bowery was actually quoted as saying, "Flesh is my most favorite fabric." I've seen many a freak make a scene and go, but Leigh was a special kind of exhibitionist because he was dedicated and saw it as an art form.
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#86. Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.
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#87. As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.
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#88. I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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#89. I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.
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#90. Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.
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#91. I'm a big fan of Yoko, one of those weird people who really love her music, and who argues with people all the time, because people do write her off.
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#92. I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.
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#93. For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - -despite being overweight by conventional -standards.
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#94. The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
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#95. Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more ... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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#96. I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.
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#97. I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.
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#98. A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
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#99. Not knowing when to shut up was one of my greatest faults.
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#100. The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
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