Lin Manuel Miranda Hamilton Quotes

[BURR] I am the one thing in life I can control.

Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....

You have no control. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory

Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.

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.

I know my sister like I know my own mind, you will never find anyone as trusting or as kind.

[HAMILTON} There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait. Just you wait.

Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

Raise a glass to freedom Something they can never take away No matter what they tell you

How on Earth did you do that with the same 24 hours a day that everyone else gets?

History is entirely created by the person who tells the story.

Legacy. What is a Legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see

I may not live to see our glory But I will gladly join the fight And when our children tell our story They'll tell the story of tonight

[WASHINGTON] It’s alright, you want to fight, you’ve got a hunger I was just like you when I was younger Head full of fantasies of dyin’ like a martyr? [HAMILTON] Yes [WASHINGTON] Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder

I am not throwing away my shot. I am not throwing away my shot. I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy, and hungry. And I am not throwing away my shot.

Comma sexting. It's a thing. Get into it.

The past places no absolute limit on the future.

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.

I wish writing were really like the way Andy staged it here: Me in a mania at a desk while a group of people stand around cheering in awe. More realistically, it's me pooping around on Twitter until I get an idea.

I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original

Life doesn't discriminate Between the sinners and the saints It takes and it takes and it takes And we keep living anyway We rise and we fall and we break And we make our mistakes

(On Angelica in 'Satisfied') Oof. Tryin’ to out-Eponine Eponine up in this piece.

Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.

You didn't expect these notes to turn into my therapy session, did you?

Talk less. Smile more.

BURR: Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of 25 essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote 85 essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing 5. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote the other 51.

Talk less. Smile more. Don't let them know what you're against or what you're for.

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.

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.

(Questlove) Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop?

I’m erasing myself from the narrative. Let future historians wonder how Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.

I was having a drink with Hugh Laurie, with whom I’d worked on his series House, and I told him I wanted to write a breakup letter from King George to the colonies. Without blinking, he improv’d at me, “Awwww, you’ll be back,” wagging his finger. I laughed and filed it away. Thanks, Hugh Laurie.

When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart - and I thought I was so smart.

You have married an Icarus; He has flown too close to the sun

Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life.

If art can help us grieve, can help us mourn, then lean on it.

When my prayers to God were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance

On opening night, standing under the Rogers's marquee, [Lin] realized that if Eliza's struggle was the element of Hamilton's story that had inspired him the most, then the show itself was a part of her legacy.

Forgiveness. Can you imagine?

(On 'The Story Of Tonight (Reprise)') Tommy Kail and I always described this scene as “When your hometown friends are at the party with your college friends.

How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re alive? Ev’ry second you’re alive?

[HAMILTON] There's a million things I haven't done but just you wait. Just you wait.

I stop wasting time on tears. I live another fifty years. It's not enough!

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French. Damn it, Lafayette.

This is familiar in contemporary politics.

Pa I did exactly as you said, Pa I held my head up high.. Even before we got to ten I was aiming for the sky I was aiming for the sky

My father wasn’t around. I swear that I’ll be around for you.

And there's a million things I haven't done But just you wait, just you wait...

We push away what we can never understand; we push away the unimaginable.

Southern motherfucking democratic-republicans

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French. Damn it, Lafayette

I’ll make the world safe and sound for you.. You will come of age with our young nation. We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you. If we lay a strong enough foundation.. We’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you.

This was the way into Burr. I knew he and Hamilton circled each other all their lives, I knew they went from friends to frenemies to foes, but it wasn’t til I read this detail online—that Theodosia was married to a British officer when Aaron Burr met her, and he waited until she was available—that the character of Burr came free in my imagination. Imagine Hamilton waiting—for anything. That’s when I realized our task was to dramatize not two ideological opposites, but a fundamental difference in temperament.

We’re immigrants. We get the job done. Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette me (at centre-stage)

The plan is to fan this spark into a flame

I walk alone to the store And it’s quiet uptown I never liked the quiet before I take the children to church on Sunday A sign of the cross at the door And I pray That never used to happen before

When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart.. and I thought I was so smart.

You will come of age with our young nation We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you If we lay a strong enough foundation We’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you

Lin says the sensation of standing in the middle of these unsettling effects is a distilled version of how he feels throughout the show: "I am staying in my lane and doing what I'm supposed to do while everyone is doing what they do at the height of their abilities, and if I move to the left or right, I'll get hit with a desk.

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.

I am the one thing in life I can controle. I am inimitable. I am an original

Look into your eyes, and the sky's the limit.

[ANGELICA] I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you've consumed my waking days It says: [HAMILTON/ANGELICA:] “My dearest Angelica” [ANGELICA:] With a comma after “dearest” You've written [HAMILTON AND ANGELICA:] “My dearest, Angelica.

And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside, Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

If you see him in the street, walking by Himself, talking to himself, have pity

This was the site of one of my best typos of all time. You haven’t lived til you’ve seen Daveed read: “As long as he can hold a pen, he’s a treat!

In their eyes I see you, Alexander I see you every time

May you always be satisfied.

Alexander Hamilton’s too much. He’s very extra a lot of the time.

love is love is love is love is love

The Hulk before intermission, Bruce Banner after it.

I stop wasting time on tears I live another fifty years It's not enough

Un deux trois quatre Cinq six sept Huit neuf Sept huit neuf— Sept huit…

Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away, no matter what they tell you.

Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.

My father wasn’t around I swear that I’ll be around for you

It’s quiet uptown I never liked the quiet before. I take the children to church on Sunday A sign of the cross at the door And I pray That never used to happen before.

Hey, our kid is pretty great.

If I see it coming do I run or do I let it be?

The feeling of freedom, of seein' the light It's Ben Franklin with a key and a kite! You see it, right?

PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES

Write like you're running out of time...

You have married an Icarus He has flown too close to the sun

The Lord, in his kindness He gives me what you always wanted He gives me more-

His hair has gone grey. He passes every day. They say he walks the length of the city.

All history should be taught through rap by Lin-Manuel Miranda

I’ll make the world safe and sound for you… …will come of age with our young nation We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you If we lay a strong enough foundation We’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you

Unless Lin made the whole thing up - and nobody has said that he did - it suggest that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it. They remind us of something we forgot, something that fell as far out of sight as the posthumously neglected Alexander Hamilton, who spent his life defending one idea above all: "the necessity of Union to the respectability and happiness of this Country." Obama's speeches and Lin's show resonate so powerfully with their audiences because they find eloquent ways to revive Hamilton's revolution, the one that spurred Americans to see themselves and each other as fellow citizens in a sprawling, polyglot, young republic. It's the change in thought and feeling that makes all the other changes possible.

His hair has gone grey. He passes every day They say he walks the length of the city

...It’s quiet uptown... I never liked the quiet before. I take the children to church on Sunday. A sign of the cross at the door, and I pray... That never used to happen before.

In their eyes I see you, Alexander... I see you every time.

You have married an Icarus; He has flown too close to the sun.

In 2009, we’d put on the first-ever White House poetry and spoken-word event, listening as a young composer named Lin-Manuel Miranda stood up and astonished everyone with a piece from a project he was just beginning to put together, describing it as a “concept album about the life of someone I think embodies hip-hop…Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.

On his way offstage, the president shook hands with Lin and said, "I'm proud of you, man." (In a gesture of self-restraint, Lin had stuck to the performance calendar they had announced before learning that President Obama was coming, the one that said Javier Muñoz would play Hamilton that afternoon.)

[ANGELICA:] I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you've consumed my waking days It says: [HAMILTON/ANGELICA:] “My dearest Angelica” [ANGELICA:] With a comma after “dearest” You've written [HAMILTON AND ANGELICA:] “My dearest, Angelica.

I feel like I have been Burr in my life as many times as I have been Hamilton. I think we've all had moments where we've seen friends and colleagues zoom past us, either to success, or to marriage, or to home-ownership, while we lingered where we were—broke, single, jobless. And you tell yourself, 'Wait for it.

...the true lessons of the American Revolution. The past places no absolute limit on the future. Even the unlikeliest changes can occur. But change requires hope-in the case of both of those unlikely victories, the hope that the American people could defy all expectation to overcome their differences and set each other free.

Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its audience in the dark about some basic and seemingly crucial facts. It's not as if the Bard forgot, in the course of all those words, to tell us whether Hamlet was crazy or only pretending: He wanted us to wonder. He forces us to work on a puzzle that has no definite answer. And this mysteriousness is one reason why we find the play irresistible. 'Hamilton' is riddled with question marks. The first act begins with a question, and so does the second. The entire relationship between Hamilton and Burr is based on a mutual and explicit lack of comprehension: 'I will never understand you,' says Hamilton, and Burr wonders, 'What it is like in his shoes?' Again and again, Lin distinguishes characters by what they wish they knew. 'What'd I miss?' asks Jefferson in the song that introduces him. 'Would that be enough?' asks Eliza in the song that defines her. 'Why do you write like you're running out of time?' asks everybody in a song that marvels at Hamilton's drive, and all but declares that there's no way to explain it. 'Hamilton', like 'Hamlet', gives an audience the chance to watch a bunch of conspicuously intelligent and well-spoken characters fill the stage with 'words, words, words,' only to discover, again and again, the limits to what they can comprehend.