Check out the best Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes that celebrate creativity, resilience, passion, and the transformative power of storytelling.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor whose work has redefined modern theatre and music.
Born on January 16, 1980, in New York City, Miranda rose to fame as the creator of the Broadway masterpieces Hamilton and In the Heights.
His ability to blend hip-hop, Latin rhythms, and traditional musical theater into unforgettable performances has made him a global cultural icon.
With multiple Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize, Miranda is recognized as one of the greatest creative minds of his generation.
Beyond Broadway, Miranda’s influence extends into film, television, and activism. He contributed to major Disney films like Moana, Encanto, and Mary Poppins Returns, continuing to champion diversity and representation in the arts.
His words are as inspiring as his music — offering motivation, creativity, and wisdom for artists, dreamers, and everyday people.
Here are the most famous Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes to spark your imagination, fuel your ambitions, and encourage you to live boldly.
Top 10 Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
- “Talk less. Smile more.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment – and that is the font of creativity.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I’m a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
- “Legacy. What is a Legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
Best Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
- “Fill the world with music, love, and pride.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I’m not throwing away my shot.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
- “If art can help us grieve, can help us mourn, then lean on it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Death doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway…” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable; I am an original. I’m not falling behind or running late. I’m not standing still: I am lying in wait.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Sometimes the right person tells the right story at the right moment, and through a combination of luck and design, a creative expression gains new force.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Famous Quotes By Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I only know how to write musicals.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I know how deep in the DNA musicals get because they’re deep in my DNA.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “’Rent’ was the show that made me want to write. Or that showed me you’re allowed to write.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that’s proven.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “You know what’s a great way of tricking people into thinking you’re a genius? Write a show about geniuses!” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you’re going to have to work twice as hard.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian lead. If I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued ‘Hamilton,’ but I couldn’t write a book, because there’s no applause at the end of writing a book.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Funny Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes
- “Comma sexting. It’s a thing. Get into it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “Why do you write like you’re running out of time?” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “You didn’t expect these notes to turn into my therapy session, did you?” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart – and I thought I was so smart.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “In the best works of fiction, there’s no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy’s got his reasons.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “It looked like Mission Control, if NASA’s business was launching rockets full of rapping multiracial actors in colonial garb into space.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda
Conclusion
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