Top 60 George Michael Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”

— George Michael

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2. “Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.”

— George Michael

3. “It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?”

— George Michael

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4. “I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.”

— George Michael

5. “If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.”

— George Michael

6. “All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.”

— George Michael

7. “Change is a stranger you have yet to know.”

— George Michael

8. “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.”

— George Michael

9. “Only time will set you free, just like me.”

— George Michael

10. “I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.”

— George Michael

11. “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.”

— George Michael

12. “It’s important to me that I should be free to express myself.”

— George Michael

13. “I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.”

— George Michael

14. “I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.”

— George Michael

15. “People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.”

— George Michael

16. “Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe.”

— George Michael

17. “Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.”

— George Michael

18. “I’ve done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I’m dead, so I might as well write the script.”

— George Michael

19. “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.”

— George Michael

20. “When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.”

— George Michael

21. “The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.”

— George Michael

22. “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.”

— George Michael

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23. “I think the media is a real demon.”

— George Michael

24. “Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.”

— George Michael

25. “English people have seen me get through scandals.”

— George Michael

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

— George Michael

27. “Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.”

— George Michael

28. “Yeah, I’m going to need a leather jacket for when I’m on my hog and need to go into a controlled slide.”

— George Michael

29. “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.”

— George Michael

30. “Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.”

— George Michael

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31. “I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.”

— George Michael

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

— George Michael

33. “I don’t really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.”

— George Michael

34. “I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.”

— George Michael

35. “I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.”

— George Michael

36. “I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.”

— George Michael

37. “Celebrity and secrets don’t go together. The bastards will get you in the end.”

— George Michael

38. “You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.”

— George Michael

39. “I’m the luckiest writer on earth.”

— George Michael

40. “I am a political person, though not with a big P.”

— George Michael

41. “I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.”

— George Michael

42. “I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.”

— George Michael

43. “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.”

— George Michael

44. “There’s not another drug in life that I’m glad I took but grass.”

— George Michael

45. “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.”

— George Michael

46. “Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men.”

— George Michael

47. “The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it’s total crap to pretend it’s not.”

— George Michael

48. “I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?”

— George Michael

49. “Say what you want about America – thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!”

— George Michael

50. “There is no such thing as a reluctant star.”

— George Michael