Michael Hutchence Quotes

• You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while – it’s weird.

  Michael Hutchence

• We’d have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

  Michael Hutchence

• The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping.

  Michael Hutchence

• Racism is essentially natural, it’s old fashioned it’s an evolutionary phase that we’re going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• I’ve never tried to emulate anyone. I’ve never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

  Michael Hutchence

• I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I’m the smallest fish in it.

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• I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that’s good.

  Michael Hutchence

• I still haven’t come to grips with our success.

  Michael Hutchence

• I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

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• I know who I am and what I do.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• 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

  Michael Hutchence

• 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.

  Michael Hutchence

• Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

  Michael Hutchence

Michael Hutchence (25)

Birth:	22nd January, 1960
Death:	22nd November, 1997
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor, Musician, Lyricist

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