Marisa Russo > Marisa's Quotes

“And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Herbert Kretzmer

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

“Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!”
― Jonathan Larson, Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so.
- Javert”
― Victor Hugo, Los Miserables I

“Too many years fighting back tears. Why can't the past just die? Wishing you were somehow here again, knowing we must say goodbye. Try to forgive, teach me to live, give me the strength to try! No more memories, no more silent tears, no more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.”
― Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Sheet Music Piano/Vocal

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

“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”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Honest to God, this is the absolute best kind of moment. The auditorium lights are off except for ones over the stage, and we're all bright eyed and giggle-drunk. I fall a little bit in love with everyone.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“The worst things in life come free to us”
― Ed Sheeran, Ed Sheeran: +

“(It starts with)
One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn’t even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn't even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn't even matter”
― Linkin Park

“Love me - that's all I ask of you.”
― Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Sheet Music Piano/Vocal

“Say you'll love me every waking moment.”
― Charles Hart, The Phantom of the Opera: Sheet Music Piano/Vocal

“If I could be anywhere, where would I be?”
― Tom Felton

“[ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I never thought that you would be the one to hold my heart”
― Christina Perri

“Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in.”
― Stephen Sondheim

“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.”
― Stephen Sondheim

“Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tension
And not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.”
― Hayley Williams

“If you love me let me go.”
― Panic! At the Disco

“You make my heart shake bend and break”
― Troye Sivan

“The sun has gone
To bed and so must I”
― Oscar Hammerstein; Richard Rodgers

“You are what you love, not who loves you.”
― Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy

“Hey moon, please forget to fall down”
― Panic! At the Disco

“Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana's early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you”
― Billy Joel

“I am the sun...
And the air...”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Why be a king,when you can be a god?”
― Eminem

“Sometimes I get tired of pins and needles
Facades are fire on the skin
And I'm growing find of broken people
As I see that I'm one of them”
― Mutemath

“There is no future,
there is not past,
I live this moment as my last,
there's only this,
forget regret,
no other road,
no other way,
no day but today”
― Jonathon Larson

“Set your dreams where nobody hides, give your tears to the tide...”
― M83