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People Quotes by George Michael

45 People quotes by George Michael

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He says being hurt by people can feel like a ride he didn't choose. He describes a perfect romance as two people truly belonging to each other. He also points out that tabloids only accuse people of being gay or using drugs, ignoring deeper truths. These thoughts show how love, pain, and media clash.

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I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.

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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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The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

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English people have seen me get through scandals.

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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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I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

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Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people…

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You can't imagine what it's like playing to people who have been loyal to you for 25 years and haven't seen you for 15.

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People have speculated about my sexuality for years and years. They are obviously interested in my sex life. Fine. Let them speculate.…

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I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a…

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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…

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Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.

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I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent…

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[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to…

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When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That,…

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[Tabloids] could call you a child molester, I suppose, but they just go for the two things they think people are most…

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I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come…

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I'm perfectly happy to admit that insecurity. It doesn't bother me. It's there, just the same as the color of my eyes…

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I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the…

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I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I…

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Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in…

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People run on and off the stage, but usually they're removed before they get to me. It's not really frightening. There's always…

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The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with…

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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…

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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…

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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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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 just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still…

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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…

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With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

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Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

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I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And…

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I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the…

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I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and…

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A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties…

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I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted…

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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…

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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…

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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 never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious…

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When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck.…

[My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.

The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents…

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…

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…

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.

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…

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I…

“I should have known better than to cheat a friend / And waste the chance that I'd been given / So I'm never gonna…

I don't really feel I deserve something if I haven't had to fight for it. It's not a conscious attitude, and it's stupid and…

I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this…

I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive.…

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

In terms of my work, I've never been reticent in terms of defining my sexuality. I write about my life.