George Michael Quotes
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"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.
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English people have seen me get through scandals.
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It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.
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That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.
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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. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.
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Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end.
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It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
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Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.
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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 the possibility that someone's going to take a potshot at you; you take that risk when you perform in front of thousands of people.
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I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.
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There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
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You'd be surprised how young 25-year-old girls can sound when they want to scream. It isn't that young an audience, and it really frustrates me when I read the word "prepubescent" in my reviews. Even the ones that started following me with Wham! are in their late teens by now.
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We always talked with Andrew Ridgeley about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
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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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I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.
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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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I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
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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 I'm just not into that.
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The only difficulty is that I'm playing to two audiences, and it's too bad the noise detracts from the show, because it's a great show. I've seen my own self out there, and it's a very good musical show. Sometimes the show gets lost in the hysteria and sometimes it doesn't.
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I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
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It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.
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I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.
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George was the easy part. As for Michael, I had always liked the name, and my father's brother is named Michael. I thought it was a good idea because there are a lot of Greeks in England with the second name of Michael; as a child I had a Greek friend whose second name was Michael. It was like getting the name that I wanted without having to get rid of the Greek element.
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The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.