Michael Hutchence quotes

Michael Hutchence was an Australian musician best known as the charismatic lead singer of the rock band INXS. His powerful vocals and magnetic stage presence made him an iconic figure in the music world. He inspired a generation with his creativity and passionate performances. Here are 26 of his quotes:

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. (Michael Hutchence)
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good. View quote
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Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that. View quote
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I hate it when people lose it, there's nothing left because they're not interesting, they're boring, I hate it, and especially smack, people on smack are the most boring in the world. View quote
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There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen. View quote
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I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes. View quote
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Every actor I know wants to be a pop star. View quote
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Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks. View quote
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Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. View quote
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We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. View quote
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I still haven't come to grips with our success. (Michael Hutchence)
You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird. View quote
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed. View quote
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There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile. View quote
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The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping. View quote
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I know who I am and what I do. View quote
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It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity. View quote
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I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining. View quote
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I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style. View quote
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I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny. View quote
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But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess. (Michael Hutchence)
I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it. View quote
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But we got up there and decided to stick to this mix of power chords and funk and that's where it really started for us. In having the courage to take that decision. To take a gamble not just with our music but our lives. View quote
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We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing. View quote
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I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press. View quote
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Michael Hutchence

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Occupation: Australian Musician
Born: January 22, 1960
Died: November 22, 1997
Quotes count: 26

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