George Michael Quotes

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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Dreams Fall Family Father Myself Work
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 MICHAEL

Couple Expectation Myself People Serious
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Business Fame Myself Value
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Clothes Hope Man Myself Photograph Sing Understand
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Perfection Time
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Believe Gift God Greatness Man Music Myself
All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Relationship See Yourself
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Day Father Myself Occupation Work
It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Expression Freedom Important Myself
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Calculation Career Control Myself Past People
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Compassionate Media Place Resource Run Teaching World
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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Believe Music Myself Time Writing
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Build Business Ego Myself Pretend Satisfaction
Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Learning Myself Teacher
Only time will set you free, just like me
GEORGE MICHAEL

Freedom Myself Time
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Listening Myself People Performance Scream

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