Lin-Manuel Miranda quotes

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, composer, lyricist, and playwright, best known for creating the Broadway musicals "Hamilton" and "In the Heights." His innovative work blends hip-hop, Latin music, and traditional show tunes to tell unique and diverse stories. He has won numerous prestigious awards and is widely regarded as a major influence in modern theater. Here are 5 of his quotes:

I only know how to write musicals.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

There are a few people who only like hip-hop music, and a few who only like theatre music, and the rest of us just like good shit. It doesn't matter what form it comes in. I think we're all a lot more eclectic than we give ourselves credit for...

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think that if we've done our job well and we articulate this individual's life well, the themes inherent in that translate...It's about legacy, about how much do we do with the time we're given? And then there are themes that wrestle with the American character, but only in that Hamilton's life is a rough-draft version of the arguments we still have as a country.

Lin-Manuel Miranda