Top 249 Quotes & Sayings by George Michael
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician George Michael.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.
My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi.
It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
I've always been the porky boy in my head.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
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.
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
I'm the luckiest writer on earth.
I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.
I define my sexuality in terms of the people that I love.
I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.
The '90s were a bit of a disaster for me in so many ways. On a personal level, I don't think I could have toured. Also, I had some physical problems with my back that are now sorted and I just wasn't in the right state of mind.
I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.
If I can just live further from the spotlight I think that'll be better for all really.
I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!
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.
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
I think the media is a real demon.
I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.
It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
I realised those things my ego needed - fame and success - were going to make me terribly unhappy. So I wrenched myself away from that. I had to. I had to walk away from America and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career because I knew, otherwise, my demons would get the better of me.
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards.
My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.
I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
I am a political person, though not with a big P.
I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through.
The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world.
I'm not a novelty act from the '80s in most parts of the world.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'
The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.
I try very hard to thank my lucky stars and keep it all in proportion and perspective, but it can be very tiring having a smiley face all day.
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.
In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn't come across that virus. She'd have worried like that.
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.
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.
My ego is sated.
If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.
I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
Related Authors
Ani DiFranco Quotes
American
Musician
Bob Dylan Quotes
American
Musician
Brian Eno Quotes
British
Musician
Bruce Springsteen Quotes
American
Musician
David Bowie Quotes
English
Musician
Drake Quotes
Canadian
Musician
Elton John Quotes
English
Musician
George Harrison Quotes
British
Musician
Henry Rollins Quotes
American
Musician
John Lennon Quotes
English
Musician
Madonna Ciccone Quotes
American
Musician
Moby Quotes
American
Musician
Nicki Minaj Quotes
American
Musician
Patti Smith Quotes
American
Musician
Thom Yorke Quotes
English
Musician
Tori Amos Quotes
American
Musician