At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
GEORGE MICHAELI can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
More George Michael Quotes
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I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I’m really pleased about that.
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Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
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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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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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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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As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn’t it?
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50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
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I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
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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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I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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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