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 MICHAELI’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.
More George Michael Quotes
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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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 dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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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 don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I’d say it’s a great drug – but obviously it’s not very healthy.
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Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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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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I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
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I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
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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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I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don’t know where I’m going to take my career.
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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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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 seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
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When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
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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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I think the media is a real demon.
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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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When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
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You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
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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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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 definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I’m really pleased about that.
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