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Singer-songwriter

Madonna Ciccone, born on August 16, 1958, in Michigan, United States, is a renowned global singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Known as the 'Queen of Pop', she is celebrated for her unique musical style, ever-changing image, and musical innovation. Since her debut in 1978, Madonna has released numerous chart-topping albums and penned classic hits such as 'Like a Virgin', 'Vogue', and 'Ray of Light', profoundly influencing the global pop music scene.

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Famous Madonna Ciccone Quotes

“If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.”

Ifs Thinking Should Care Praying Don't Care Caring I Don't Care Toms Cruise Turtles

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“My goal from the very beginning was just to write good songs that don't require any production to be felt or understood. I wanted to be able to sit in a room with a guitar and play the song from beginning to end and have it be as impactful as if you heard the studio version with all the bells and whistles.”

Ifs Writing Ends Play Able Wanted Song Felt Goal Rooms Heard Understood Guitar Productions Studios Versions Bells

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“Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.”

Ifs Should Helping Able Order Steps

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“In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.”

Ifs Found Social Rooms Party Kings England Dinner Throwing Gathering Cocktails Dinner Party Molotov Molotov Cocktail

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“I don't give a damn if I go to hell.”

Ifs Giving Hell Damn Go To Hell Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

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“People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.”

People Ifs Ideas Beautiful Offers Provocative

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“You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.”

Ifs Helping Language Common Italian Rapport

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“If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me.”

Ifs Firsts Success Succeed Inspirational Sports Road To Success Success And Failure Success Failure Succes Short Sports Short Inspirational Sports Short Motivational Sports Great Inspirational Sports Failure Motivational Past Failures Dust Yourself Off

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“I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Hands Stars Sides Goes On Grateful Pops Reluctant Had Enough Life Goes On Pop Stars

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“I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Ifs Giving Hell Love You Intention Damn Satan Good Intentions Go To Hell Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

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“If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.”

Ifs Looks Children Rights Groups Solutions Civil Rights Offering Stink Orphanage

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“I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?”

Ifs Want Hands Black Revolution Skins Take Me Grenade Afros Black Skin

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“That's what I mean about Catholicism - your sexual life is supposed to be dead if you're a good Catholic. That's wrong. It's human nature to be sexual, so why would God want you to deny your human nature?”

Ifs Want Humans Mean Life Is Human Nature Catholic Deny Supposed To Be Catholicism

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“I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!”

Ifs Want Needs Shows Creation Details Surface Bows Buttons Snaps Hairstyles Zippers

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“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'”

Ifs Father Jesus Church Responsibility Hell Seeing Dad Catholic Dresses My Dad Pants Strict Catholic Church Jesus Love Disparity Jesus Loves Me

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“Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.”

People Ifs Feels Embrace

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“Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.”

“There's no law that says that you cannot be a spiritual person and a sexual person. In fact, if you have the right consciousness, sex is like a prayer. It can be a divine experience. So why do they have to be disassociated with one another?”

Ifs Persons Facts Spiritual Law Sex Prayer Consciousness Divine

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“If I have to be the person who opens the door for women to believe and understand and embrace the idea that they can be sexual and look good and be as relevant in their 50s or their 60s as they were in their 20s, then so be it.”

Ifs Believe Looks Persons Ideas Doors Embrace Relevant

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“Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.”

Ifs Writing Sometimes Certain Song Ready Mood Journal

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“If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.”

Ifs Believe Heart Land Make Believe

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“If you want something bad enough the whole world conspires to help you get it.”

Ifs World Want Enough Whole Helping Whole World Want Something

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“Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?”

People Ifs Art Faces Planets Art Is Tools Senses Heal Appeals

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“If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.”

Ifs Want Problem Right Now Working It

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“If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.”

Ifs Men Strong Like You Periods Comfortable Instinct Feminine Strong Women Threatened

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“There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.”

Ifs Way Wells Earth Shy Performers Exhibitionist

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“If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking.”

Ifs Vote Spanking

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“George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.”

Ifs Want Hands Father Sex Figures Mouths Have Faith I Want You Father Figure

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“If you have an opinion and people disagree with you, you might not get a job. You might be blacklisted. You might have fewer followers on Instagram.”

People Ifs Might Jobs Opinion Followers Disagree Fewer Instagram

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“Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.”

People Ifs Way Feels I Can Shows Age Records Music Is Inspired Excited

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“I like to be provocative. I like to make people think. I like to touch people's hearts. And if I can do all three of those things in one fell swoop, then I feel like I've really accomplished something.”

People Ifs Thinking Feels Heart I Can Three Can Do Accomplished Provocative

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“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

Ifs Thinking Joy Disappointed Single Think Of You Being Single

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“If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay”

Ifs Running Smart Running Away

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“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”

Ifs Ends Bitter

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“If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.”

Ifs Girl Fans Girly

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“I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.”

People Ifs I Can Care Don't Care Boring I Don't Care

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“I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.”

Ifs Would Be Ambitious Gross Monstrosity

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“If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Shows Class Gym First Class

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“My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home.”

Ifs Problem Mother Guy Rooms Clothes Daughter Bags My Daughter Trash Tidy Spoilers

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“I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.”

Ifs Way Values Complaining Rebellion Rebel Complaints Old Fashioned Traditional Values

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“My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.”

Ifs Way Values Father Strong Integrity Agree Very Strong

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“When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.”

Ifs Littles Stars Bits Easier Behavior Little Bit Pops Expected Daring Eccentric Pop Stars

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“One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring.”

Ifs Believe Fighting Willing Rings

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“If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!”

Ifs Giving President Support Gay Giving Up Defeat African American Not Giving Up Gay Marriage Props Support Gay Marriage

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“If you want to change the world, change yourself.”

Ifs World Want Change Mythology Changing The World Be You Change Yourself Inspirations Being Yourself Love Your Family Still Life With Woodpecker Celebration Of Life Impact On The World

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“If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.”

Ifs Real Inspiration Life Is Artist Creativity Real Life

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“I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.”

Ifs Thinking Long Care Hate Opinion Don't Care I Don't Care Make You Think Hate Me You Hate Me Love Me Or Hate Me If You Hate Me

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“If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.”

Ifs Would Be Nice One Day Travel Celebrate Just One Holiday

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“If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.”

Ifs Way I Can Planets Daring Living My Life I Live My Life

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“I shouldn't have stayed so long away. Every time I come here, I get so supercharged with energy. I truly believe that Israel is the energy centre of the world. And I also believe that if we can all live together in harmony in this place, then we can live in peace all over the world.”

Ifs World Believe Long Together Energy Harmony Israel Centre

Author:Madonna Ciccone

About the Author

Born: August 16, 1958
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 593

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