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 MICHAELWhen you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
More George Michael Quotes
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Freedom. I will not give you up.
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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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It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
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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 think the media is a real demon.
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I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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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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This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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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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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 don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
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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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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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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 don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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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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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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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’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
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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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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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It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
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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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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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