Top 98 George Michael Quotes
#1. You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
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#3. I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
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#4. I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud. (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece)
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#5. There is no comfort in the truth , pain is all you find.
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#6. I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
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#7. 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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#9. Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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#10. 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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#12. I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
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#13. It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?
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#14. Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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#15. I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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#16. Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were built to last.
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#18. 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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#19. The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
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#20. The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
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#24. I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
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#25. I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
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#26. 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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#27. There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
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#28. 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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#30. I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
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#31. 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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#32. The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.
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#33. I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.
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#34. If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.
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#35. Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
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#36. My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
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#37. I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?
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#38. People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.
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#39. I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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#40. Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
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#41. There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
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#42. 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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#43. I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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#44. I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
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#45. I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.
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#46. For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.
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#47. Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.
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#49. Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.
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#50. Yeah, I'm going to need a leather jacket for when I'm on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.
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#51. All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.
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#52. 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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#53. I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
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#56. Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me
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#57. It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
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#58. 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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#59. Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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#60. Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe
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#61. Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
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#66. 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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#69. I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
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#70. 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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#71. I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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#72. I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.
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#73. 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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#74. I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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#75. I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
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#80. I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.
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#81. You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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#82. 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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#84. This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies. (about his latest song Shoot the Dog)
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
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#90. I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.
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#91. Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
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#92. Me, I don't want any children, I don't want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.
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#93. I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
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#94. It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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#97. 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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#98. 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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