Top 160 Madonna Quotes

Every writer has their rituals. For me, it’s morning walks along the beach. And then, in my study I have a huge painting of the Black Madonna hung over my desk, and quite a few pictures of Mary around me for inspiration.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they’re fooling? It doesn’t make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that’s not me. But I’m no villain.

We don’t sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I’ll never find a Taylor Swift. You can’t find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won’t find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don’t.

I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s… I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.

I think the best artists are the ones who constantly change – Madonna, Bowie.

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face.

I have met Madonna. I have met Oprah Winfrey. I have met some of the most phenomenal people alive.

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to ‘Bedtime Stories,’ ‘Erotica,’ and a few more of her albums – and we may have watched ‘Truth or Dare’ a thousand times.

I grew up a Madonna fan, still am a Madonna fan, and will die a Madonna fan.

When I was kid, I remember playing ‘Vogue’ by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.

Far Behind’ is a single from Candlebox’s self-titled record from 1993. The record came out on Madonna’s Maverick imprint and went quadruple platinum, regardless of how much it sucked.

As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn’t know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.

I don’t think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

I love a good lyricist – always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I’ll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.

If there’s one thing that I love as an entertainer, it’s a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

Since Madonna is positioned as always ‘cooler than thou,’ we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna’s producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream – it was interesting.

I’m not a corporate machine. I’m not Lady Gaga, I’m not Madonna, I don’t have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn’t allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow – ‘don’t hate me for my success, don’t hate me for my power.’

I thought Steve Jobs was amazing. He was such a great businessman. Someone that has just been really continually successful with their brand and hasn’t gone away, Madonna is incredible. We’ve all kind of listened to her for years and seen her grow up and change, and she’s never strayed away from who she is.

When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible.

Musicians of any era – whether it be The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Rage Against the Machine, or, of course, Madonna – will inspire fashion. And we, in turn, will inspire them.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I’m massively inspired by ‘True Blue’-era Madonna, but she is absolutely confident and in control of the situation.

I’d like to look like Madonna when I’m her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I’ve always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I’m always aware if I’m getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don’t knock another sister, ever. There’s room for everybody on this planet; you don’t have to be like anyone else.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

I mean, who cannot name at least three of her songs that you’ve broken a sweat to in the club? She’s also been such an ally and an advocate to the LGBTQ+ community for so many years when it wasn’t popular, and for that reason alone I say hats off, or should I say wigs off, to Madonna!

I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on ‘Wine Library TV’ tomorrow. Monday’s episode is always the best, because it’s hot off the press.

One of the things that I’ve learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It’s really rare that she ever brings up the past.

Madonna was my favorite when I was a little kid.

There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?

I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

The Madonna tour thing was definitely funny that – you know, children were crying watching us… and it was interesting seeing how angry their parents were.

Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

I’m like Madonna, I’m not afraid to offend.

This game wears on you. It tears you down. It’s perpetual motion for some people who’ve achieved a level of independence, like Madonna and Jay-Z – they don’t need to do music anymore. But there’s people who need it. And in that need, that’s when it’s tough and it tears you to pieces.

Madonna is an athlete; she has to be treated like a professional athlete. She doesn’t work out for six hours a day, though, like some of the press says. She never works out for more than two hours a day, and then only when she has the time.

I remember wearing old long johns, my dad’s silk paisley dressing gown, chopped off at the waist, and lots of crucifixes – trying to look like Madonna. But I wasn’t breaking any moulds, I was just trying to follow somebody else.

Like David Bowie, Madonna visualizes music so that her best work seems equally designed with the stage or screen in mind – not just the jukebox.

I really enjoy encountering a celebrity who’s like, ‘Let’s go; you’d better have your A-game on.’ You sit down with Madonna, and she’s like, ‘You’d better have something for me. If you’re not ready to dance, I’ll eat you up.’

I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that.