Hamilton Musical Quotes

“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 know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Why do you write like you're running out of time?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Legacy. What is a Legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Legacy. What is a legacy?
It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.”
― hamilton musical

“Immigrants, we get the job done.

(Acknowlegments)”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“When Lin optioned his book, Ron was relieved that the Founding Father who had the most dramatic and least appreciated life story would finally get his due—even though a rap musical was the last way that Ron had anticipated Hamilton getting it.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“I am the one thing in life I can control.
I am inimitable.
I am an original”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton - Vocal Selections

“Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Talk less. Smile more. Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.”
― Lin Manuel-Miranda

“(Questlove) Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Ron told Pippa that during the six years he had spent on the book, Valerie Chernow had developed a powerful identification with Hamilton’s wife. “She used to say, ‘Eliza is like me: She’s good, she’s true, she’s loyal, she’s not ambitious.’ There was a purity and a goodness about the character, and that was like Valerie,” he says. In 2006, after 27 years of marriage, Valerie passed away. For her gravestone, Ron chose a line from the letter that Hamilton wrote to Eliza on the night before the duel: “Best of wives and best of women.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Southern motherfucking democratic-republicans”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“The plan is to fan this spark into a flame”
― Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamillton

“Congratulations. You have invented a new kind of stupid. A 'damage you can never undo' kind of stupid. An 'open all the cages in the zoo' kind of stupid. 'Truly, you didn't think this through?' kind of stupid.”
― Angelica Schuyler from Hamilton: The Musical

“Alexander Hamilton’s too much. He’s very extra a lot of the time.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love.”
― King George

“PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES”
― Lin Manuel Miranda

“All history should be taught through rap by Lin-Manuel Miranda”
― Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera

“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love.”
― George III

“Thomas Jefferson helped the Marquis de Lafayette draft a declaration," Simon blurts. "Mr. Spier, memorizing the Hamilton soundtrack is not
going to save you on the AP Euro exam.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“death doesn´t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes and we keep livin´ anyway we laugh and we cry and we break and make our mistakes but if theres a reason im still alive when everyone who loves me has died im willing to wait for it”
― Lin Manuel Miranda

“I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love”
― King George of England

“No one has more resilience or matches my practical, tactical brilliance!”
― Marquis De Lafayette from Hamilton: The Musical

“I know I shall disappoint you in a thousand ways before our time on Earth is through. But I hope that you will always see the good in me and know that this unworthy heart of mine will always be yours, no matter what obstacles or failures I bring to your life.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza

“At first they were no more than a list of names on sheets of paper, but as he perused the litany of Alcotts and Kilkelleys and Williamsons, the Josiahs and Ezekiels and Franklins, Alex had a sense of the awesome responsibility that had been placed in his hands. Each of these men was someone’s son, someone’s brother, someone’s husband—someone’s future. And all of them would be risking their lives at his sole discretion. Alex’s wisdom would be their salvation. His folly would be their death.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza

“This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn’t it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Alex and Eliza