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Composer

Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, actor, and songwriter born on January 16, 1980, in New York City. He is renowned for blending hip-hop and traditional Broadway musical theater, creating a revolutionary style that transformed contemporary musical theater. His breakthrough works include the Tony-winning musicals 'In the Heights' and 'Hamilton,' the latter earning him numerous awards including Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He also composed songs for Disney's 'Moana.' As a Puerto Rican American, he is actively involved in relief efforts for Puerto Rico.

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Famous Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

“I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.”

Thinking Writing Trying Fall Energy College Taste Witty Score Tape Broadway Tempo Showing Off Rise And Fall Placement

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“The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.”

Knows Reason Order Sides Break Distinction Cds Cassettes

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“I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle.”

Middle Hip Hop Hips Hops

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“When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.”

People Ifs Matter Audience Listening Ears Constant Rhythm Consistently

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“If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Term Toppings

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“It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.”

Writing Actors Enormous Worried Relief

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“You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.”

Success Or Failure

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“I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.”

Thinking Trying Process Decision Failing Succeed

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“I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.”

Country Young Hungry

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“With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.”

Trying Goal Pieces Rough Diamond Coal Diamond In The Rough

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“Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.”

Book Shocked History Books

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“I will lay down my life if it sets us free.”

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“Once George Washington said, "I have to step down the so the country can move on."”

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“I went to a school where everyone was smarter than me. And I'm not blowin' smoke, I, my, I was surrounded by genius, genius kids. What's interesting about growing up in a culture like that is you go, "All right, I gotta figure out what my thing is. Because I'm not smarter than these kids. I'm not funnier than half of them, so I better figure out what it is I wanna do and work really hard at that because intellectually I'm treading water to, to be here."”

Kids School Culture Water Interesting Growing Up Genius

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“Everyday has the potential to be the greatest day of your life”

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About the Author

Born: January 16, 1980
Known for: Composer
Quotes: 115

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