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.
GEORGE MICHAELAs 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.
More George Michael Quotes
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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 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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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 am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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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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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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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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There are very few things in my life that I can’t have if I want them. So when I see something that I can’t have, immediately I’m obsessed by it.
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I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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 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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I couldn’t change anything without changing the end position, and I’m perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it’s left me here.
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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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My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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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.
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