Wham! Quotes
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My parents both came from very poor working-class families.
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No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.
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Freedom. I will not give you up.
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I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.
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I've wondered what my sexuality might be, but I've never wondered whether it was acceptable or not. Anyway, who really cares whether I'm gay or straight?
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We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album Music From the Edge of Heaven because it wasn't an album.
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Only time will set you free, just like me.
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I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
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Obviously, Wham! made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.
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I had a very important personal point to make with this song I Want Your Sex. I just hated the idea that lust and forbidden excitement could only come with sleaze and strangers.
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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.
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This was absolutely an attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.
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My father was not a musical man.
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Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.
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I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.
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In the rest of the world we had had two albums that were successful, so those two albums' hits and this new four-single package made up an album called Wham! The Final, which is basically greatest hits. We couldn't have done a greatest hits over here, because we'd only done one hit album.
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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.
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There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
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I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme of the Faith album.
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It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.
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I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
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It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.
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You couldn't release the single on its own, because no one wanted it.