110+ George Michael Quotes On Soulful, Iconic And Melodic

George Michael was a British singer, songwriter and record producer who rose to fame in the 1980s as part of the duo Wham! He was widely successful as a solo artist, selling over 100 million records worldwide and earning numerous awards, including two Grammys and three Brit Awards. He was noted for his soulful voice, strong songwriting ability and distinctive music videos. Following is our collection on famous quotes by George Michael on love, soulful, iconic.

Top 10 George Michael Quotes

1. You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
2. Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
3. 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.
4. The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.
5. Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should
6. Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
7. I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.
8. This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
9. I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?
10. Stupid cupid keeps on calling me, but I see nothing in his eyes. I miss my babe

George Michael Image Quotes

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. — George Michael

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should — George Michael

George Michael Short Quotes

• [My family] is one of the strongest families you're ever likely to see.
• I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.
• I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.
• I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
• My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.
• It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.
• Say what you want about America - thirteen bucks can still get you a hell of a lot of mice!
• You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.
• I never had a moral problem with being gay.
• I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

George Michael Quotes About Listen

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing. — George Michael

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

George Michael Famous Quotes And Sayings

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy. — George Michael

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

When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off. — George Michael

Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should — George Michael

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. — George Michael

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man. — George Michael

This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy. — George Michael

I got to say hello to Snoop Dogg. I got to, I was being barged out of the way by his bodyguards but I got to say hello to him which was cool. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

[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. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene. — George Michael

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing. — George Michael

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

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that. — George Michael

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly. — George Michael

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be. — George Michael

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me. — George Michael

I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece) — George Michael

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers. — George Michael

It's an incredibly limited sphere those tabloids have, isn't it? Basically, they can accuse people of being gay and they can accuse people of taking drugs, but they can't get any more sensational without entering into the realm of incredibly bad taste. — George Michael

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

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by. — George Michael

I was at Live Aid the original, looking like Rolf Harris for some reason. I had a really long beard that day for some reason. — George Michael

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite. — George Michael

I think part of it has got to be compensation, yes, for the fact that when I was a kid, I wasn't particularly attractive. But at the same time I don't remember ever thinking, Oh, my God, I'm such a mess; I'm the ugliest sod in the class. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things. — George Michael

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career. — George Michael

Both of us knew the band had run its course. We were both unhappy doing it, but I think the way Andrew [Ridgeley] was being treated as the less important half of the duo had finally taken its toll on him. — George Michael

We both [me and Andrew Ridgeley ] knew that splitting up was the right thing to do, and there was no animosity between us at all. — George Michael

I get along really well with [my father] now, but I had a terrible time with him in my teenage years. All we did was scream at each other, and when we weren't screaming at each other, we just wouldn't talk to each other. — George Michael

Still, the music was always there, and the lyrical capability was always threatening to show its head. — George Michael

A lot of people felt that I was just tying that into the "I Want Your Sex" theme because of the AIDS thing and the prospect of the song's being banned. I thought it was a relevant point to make because of the AIDS thing. I wanted to write a song which sounded dirty but which was applicable to someone that I really cared about. That was my point. — George Michael

I had surprisingly little money when Wham! ended. You'd be very surprised how little, really, because you don't realize how much money it takes to maintain a band. — George Michael

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing. — George Michael

Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break. — George Michael

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves. — George Michael

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us. — George Michael

I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits. — George Michael

It's quite simple: I managed it by doing away with Wham!'s duo image. Obviously, the way I looked changed and that helped a little, but I still have a very pop image. It's a very video-friendly image. I find it a lot more real. It's a lot closer to who I am than the whole Wham! thing. — George Michael

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it. — George Michael

I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence. — George Michael

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be. — George Michael

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

Well it looks like the road to heaven But it feels like the road to hell When I knew which side my bread was buttered I took the knife as well Posing for another picture Everybody's got to sell But when you shake your ass They notice fast And some mistakes were built to last. — George Michael

When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind. — George Michael

I guess I was about 15. I wore glasses at the time, and I remember [first girlfriend] sitting on the floor at a party, one of those school parties where everyone is getting off with each other. I remember her taking my glasses off and saying something very complimentary about my eyes or whatever, and I was just so pissed off because I was convinced she was taking the piss out of me. — George Michael

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be. — George Michael

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth. — George Michael

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last. — George Michael

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy. — George Michael

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type. — George Michael

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent." — George Michael

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

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. — George Michael

I thought I had fallen in love with a woman a couple of times. Then I fell in love with a man, and realised that none of those things had been love. — George Michael

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say? — George Michael

I think the media is a real demon. — George Michael

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here. — George Michael

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me. — George Michael

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that. — George Michael

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with. — George Michael

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

Change is a stranger you have yet to know. — George Michael

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm. — George Michael

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. — George Michael

Basically I see that song as a bunch of images which I threw together to represent the fact that I was seeing one girl and then I started seeing another, and it was just the guilt in between those two periods. The ballads I've written since have been about things that really hurt me. — George Michael

I also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me. — George Michael

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]. — George Michael

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake. — George Michael

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me. — George Michael

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing. — George Michael

Freedom. I will not give you up. — George Michael

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me. — George Michael

Life Lessons by George Michael

1. George Michael taught us the importance of being true to yourself, no matter what other people may think. He was an advocate for LGBTQ rights and was unashamed of his sexuality, showing us that being honest and open about our identities is a powerful thing.
2. He also showed us the importance of standing up for what you believe in, even when it is unpopular. He was an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and was unafraid to voice his opinion.
3. Finally, George Michael's music was a reminder to always be kind and generous to those around us. He was a philanthropist, donating to numerous charities and causes throughout his life.