George Michael Quotes

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George Michael

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 25, 1963

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

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

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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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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 gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.

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I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.

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There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her.

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I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.

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

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I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

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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.

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

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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.

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My ego is sated.

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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.

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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.

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

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It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you.

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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

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I can't bear Catholicism.

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