Madonna Ciccone Quotes & Sayings

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really. — Madonna Ciccone

I tried to be a boy, I tried to be a girl, I tried to be a mess. — Madonna Ciccone

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go. — Madonna Ciccone

Just like a prayer, your voice can take me there. — Madonna Ciccone

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better? — Madonna Ciccone

I don't want no lies, I don't watch TV. I don't waste my time, won't read a magazine. — Madonna Ciccone

After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to plan things more. You end up judging yourself more, what looks good and what doesn't. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't know what our government does except put us into debt and blow up other countries. — Madonna Ciccone

Let's forget about time
And dance our lives away — Madonna Ciccone

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion. — Madonna Ciccone

In everyday life I am quiet and reserved, not the housekeeper type but cool and relaxed. I don't get up in the morning wearing false eyelashes and I don't wear fancy underwear when I'm cooking popcorn. I'm a nice little ducky. — Madonna Ciccone

The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution — Madonna Ciccone

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person — Madonna Ciccone

I'm attracted to men who are going to stand up to me. — Madonna Ciccone

Its boring not to take risks — Madonna Ciccone

The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman. — Madonna Ciccone

One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal. — Madonna Ciccone

Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died. — Madonna Ciccone

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you. — Madonna Ciccone

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't think I have to introduce myself, unless you don't recognize me with my clothes on. — Madonna Ciccone

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. — Madonna Ciccone

The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing. — Madonna Ciccone

Say goodbye to yesterday ... those are the words I'll never say. — Madonna Ciccone

Nothing lasts forever. Should I? — Madonna Ciccone

I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it. — Madonna Ciccone

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is. — Madonna Ciccone

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants. — Madonna Ciccone

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today! — Madonna Ciccone

I fear the future I wish for my children is at risk, so I'm taking action. Please join me ... — Madonna Ciccone

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today. — Madonna Ciccone

I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same. — Madonna Ciccone

Honestly, I don't read newspapers, magazines, whatever. They're just not part of my lexicon. I don't want to be manipulated, or manipulated about other people's work. — Madonna Ciccone

I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning. — Madonna Ciccone

Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I'm worth it. — Madonna Ciccone

The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful. — Madonna Ciccone

In the midnight hour, I can feel your power. — Madonna Ciccone

I am attracted to a thug. I like that quality, but I like the other side of it, too. Because all guys who go around behaving in macho ways are really scared little girls. So you have to look beneath the surface. There's a difference between my ideal man and a man that I'm sexually attracted to, believe me. Therein lies the rub. — Madonna Ciccone

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short! — Madonna Ciccone

If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave. — Madonna Ciccone

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something. — Madonna Ciccone

My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away. — Madonna Ciccone

New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time. — Madonna Ciccone

Sure, having my pictures taken in the nude and doing things that I did got me in the door but it didn't keep me in the room. To have lasted as long as I've lasted, obviously, I have to have something more going for me. — Madonna Ciccone

I'll flirt with anyone from garbagemen to grandmothers. — Madonna Ciccone

I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take. — Madonna Ciccone

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts. — Madonna Ciccone

I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family. — Madonna Ciccone

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time. — Madonna Ciccone

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no' — Madonna Ciccone

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily ... and I'm reliable. — Madonna Ciccone

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin. — Madonna Ciccone

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? — Madonna Ciccone

I am very proud to be Italian. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't care anymore if people dress like me, now I want them to think like me. — Madonna Ciccone

Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons. — Madonna Ciccone

I am a tip-top starlet. That is my job that I am paid to do. — Madonna Ciccone

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs. — Madonna Ciccone

You bring me to my knees, while I'm scratching out the eyes of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise. And right while I am kneeling there, I suddenly begin to care. And understand that there could be a person that loves me. — Madonna Ciccone

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do. — Madonna Ciccone

I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore. — Madonna Ciccone

I know the aspect of my personality, being the vixen, the heartbreaker and the incredibly provocative girl is a very marketable image, but it's not insincere. You just can't take it seriously. — Madonna Ciccone

I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all and sitting at the edge of the stage and connecting with individual people in the audience. — Madonna Ciccone

I think that its an artist's responsibility to have a point of view. Society takes its cue from popular art. People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something. — Madonna Ciccone

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see. — Madonna Ciccone

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives. — Madonna Ciccone

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be? — Madonna Ciccone

I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces. — Madonna Ciccone

I want to appeal to people's sense of humanity and interconnectedness. I feel like I have the platform I'm standing on for a reason. It's not just to make people happy and get people to dance and sing, to feel an escape. It's also to get people to listen and to bring important issues to the forefront. — Madonna Ciccone

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone

Don't go for second best. Put your love to the test. — Madonna Ciccone

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check. — Madonna Ciccone

Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. — Madonna Ciccone

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks. — Madonna Ciccone

I think after time goes by and you earn certain rights or you break through certain barriers, you could sometimes, maybe, take it for granted what you have now that you didn't have before. And then that would lead to a certain lack of community, in a way, caring in a way, that I saw before [in gay society]. — Madonna Ciccone

I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know. Obviously, the best meetings are with suits that are intelligent, because then things are operating on a whole other level. — Madonna Ciccone

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm a role model for those who dare to be different. For those who dare to take a stand in their life and have an opinion — Madonna Ciccone

I chose to start my world tour in Israel for a very specific and important reason. As you know, the Middle East and all the conflicts that occur here and that have been occurring for thousands of years, they have to stop. You can't be a fan of mine and not want peace in the world. — Madonna Ciccone

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. — Madonna Ciccone

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?' — Madonna Ciccone

You're frozen when your heart's not open — Madonna Ciccone

I hope my child will be a good Catholic like me. — Madonna Ciccone

My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool. — Madonna Ciccone

I think everybody has a bisexual nature. That's my theory. I could be wrong. — Madonna Ciccone

When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of my career was mostly - and overwhelmingly - concerned with staying alive. And, also, I felt really aware of the preciousness of life and time. The gay community and people who were HIV-positive were treated so badly, and I was very disturbed by things. But I also saw a lot of love and connection in the gay community at that time. — Madonna Ciccone

It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far. — Madonna Ciccone

Straight men need to be emasculated ... Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. — Madonna Ciccone

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven. — Madonna Ciccone

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else. — Madonna Ciccone

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! — Madonna Ciccone

I suffered fools so gladly. — Madonna Ciccone

I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married. — Madonna Ciccone

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies. — Madonna Ciccone