I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
GEORGE MICHAELFreedom. I will not give you up.
More George Michael Quotes
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I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
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All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.
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I truly believed that tonight would never happen, that I would never sing these songs to you again. But then I’m a fool, which you’ve probably worked out by now.
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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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[My family] is one of the strongest families you’re ever likely to see.
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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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I just hope that I’ll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.
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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’d never touch anything. I think it’s foolhardy to play around with the face that you’ve been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.
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My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
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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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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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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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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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I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.
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I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
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My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.
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I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.
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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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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
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Only time will set you free, just like me
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I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.
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