George Michael Quotes

I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

George Michael

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• Screaming

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Sleep
  • Conversation
  • Weakness

• You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Lights

• When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Building

• During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Ocean
  • Lights

• One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• He who considers too much will perform little.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Little
  • Much
  • Perform

• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Beautiful
  • Feel
  • Stage

• More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Perform
  • Count Basie

• We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Promise
  • Perform
  • Cannot

• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  

  Tom Araya Slayer
  • Try
  • Melody
  • Screaming

• I'm not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that's become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Problem
  • Lights

• It's such a thrill to perform live. You never know if you're going to get hit with a bottle or a bra.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Live
  • Perform
  • Thrill

• I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Guitar
  • Sing
  • Instrument

• If you perform on a stage or you sing a song, it's like you sing your song, and then the words go into the air, and then they go into somebody's body through their ears, so it's kind of like penetrating somebody. It's kind of like having sex with somebody - but, obviously, from a great distance.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Sex
  • Songs
  • Perform

• Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

  

  Carl Bereiter
  • Act
  • Perform
  • Beings

• I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making me a much more interesting person, I think. This all really does feel like a rebirth, a new chapter.

  

  John Stamos
  • Feel
  • Chapter
  • Rebirth

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Sustainability

• Most famous people get younger and younger. I sometimes ask myself that question: 'How come I'm the only person who's getting older?'

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Question
  • Younger
  • Famous People

• I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming.

  

  George Michael
  • Perform
  • Lights
  • Screaming