110+ Madonna Ciccone Quotes On Music, Iconic And Innovative

Madonna Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is often referred to as the "Queen of Pop" and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in popular culture. Madonna has sold over 300 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Madonna Ciccone on love, life, music.

Top 10 Madonna Ciccone Quotes

1. With every breath, I'm deeper in you.
2. I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.
3. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
4. I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.
5. I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
6. Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
7. As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.
8. I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
9. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
10. We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

Madonna Ciccone Image Quotes

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Short Quotes

• Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn’t make sense, that’s why
• Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.
• Popularity comes and goes. You need to know who you are, what you stand for, and why you're here.
• I was sacked from Dunkin' Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.
• To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult
• When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
• No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else
• We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.
• A good relationship is a competition of generosity.
• There's no borderline for the things that I can say, do, and create.

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Love

Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling. — Madonna Ciccone

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. — Madonna Ciccone

But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere. — Madonna Ciccone

Being loved keeps you young. — Madonna Ciccone

Love is a bird... she needs to fly. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. — Madonna Ciccone

I love being photographed, or I should say I love the art of photography. It's about people taking photographs of you, stealing them, and then presuming or assuming or captioning. Words can never be taken back, photographs can never be taken back, nothing can ever be taken back. — Madonna Ciccone

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. — Madonna Ciccone

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way. — Madonna Ciccone

I used mythology to tell the story [in Living with Love], with the story of the minotaur and the matador and fighting and fighting for love and the color red and flowers and horns and death and naked men. You know, the important things in life. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Life

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. — Madonna Ciccone

I want the good life, but I don't want an easy ride. What I want is to work for it, feel the blood and sweat on my fingertips. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet. — Madonna Ciccone

The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective. — 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 feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me. — Madonna Ciccone

I didn't really give a sh** what's going on in the rest of the world. I just didn't. I just wanted to focus on me, me, me, my career, my life, just me - blinders. — Madonna Ciccone

Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Music

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac. — Madonna Ciccone

Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin. — Madonna Ciccone

My home base - pop music and the Catholic Church. — 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 try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music. — 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

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal. — 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

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for. — 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

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Provocative

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 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. — Madonna Ciccone

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

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative. — Madonna Ciccone

I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons. — Madonna Ciccone

I like to be provocative. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About People

I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people. — Madonna Ciccone

It's none of your business what people say about you. — Madonna Ciccone

I wouldn't say I wanna conquer the world anymore. But I want to be a part of making the world a better place. I want to inspire people and I wanna be part of the solution. — Madonna Ciccone

I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board... — 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

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge. — 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

People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS. — 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

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Places

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that. — Madonna Ciccone

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. — Madonna Ciccone

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free. — Madonna Ciccone

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone. — Madonna Ciccone

If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone. — Madonna Ciccone

I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, "Hi, how are you?" I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Quotes About Famous

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 thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say. — Madonna Ciccone

The thing I like least about being famous is being overly scrutinized for everything I say and do. — Madonna Ciccone

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt. — Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion — Madonna Ciccone

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God — Madonna Ciccone

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true. — Madonna Ciccone

The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says.. the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope. — Madonna Ciccone

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right. — Madonna Ciccone

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on. — Madonna Ciccone

Madonna Ciccone Famous Quotes And Sayings

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. — 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

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 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. — Madonna Ciccone

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that. — Madonna Ciccone

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading — Madonna Ciccone

I feel that most gay men are so much more in touch with a certain kind of sensitivity that heterosexual men aren't allowed to be in touch with, their feminine side. To me they're whole human beings, more so than most of the straight men that I know. — Madonna Ciccone

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. — Madonna Ciccone

I just like the idea of pills. I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and Oxycontin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak. — 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

I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing in society, or formal education. I had a very middle, lower-middle class sort of upbringing, but I identify with people who've had, at some point in their lives to struggle to survive. It adds another color to your character. — Madonna Ciccone

Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach a certain age, you're not allowed to be adventurous, you're not allowed to be sexual and I think that's rather hideous. [...] I mean, is there a rule? Are you just supposed to die when you're 40? — Madonna Ciccone

I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million. — Madonna Ciccone

What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks. — Madonna Ciccone

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief. — Madonna Ciccone

I went to New York. I had a dream. I wanted to be a big star, I didn’t know anybody, I wanted to dance, I wanted to sing, I wanted to do all those things, I wanted to make people happy, I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true. — Madonna Ciccone

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward. — 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 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 feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home. — Madonna Ciccone

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

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me. — Madonna Ciccone

It would be so helpful for the straight community to see men in powerful positions coming out and saying "I'm gay" so they don't have these preconceived notions that all gay men are smarmy idiots living on the street or whatever it is people think of gay men. I think it would be really helpful and productive. — 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

Nothing lasts forever. Should I? — Madonna Ciccone

I always thought I should be treated like a star. — Madonna Ciccone

I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body! — Madonna Ciccone

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

I am very proud to be Italian. — Madonna Ciccone

The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it. — Madonna Ciccone

A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or diminish me. Maybe they just feel unsafe. But any time you have an overtly emotional or irrational, negative reaction to something, you’re fearing something that it’s bringing up in you. — Madonna Ciccone

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it. — Madonna Ciccone

Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men. — Madonna Ciccone

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me. — Madonna Ciccone

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. — Madonna Ciccone

Bad girl, drunk by six, kissing someone else's lips. Smoked to many cigarettes today, I'm not happy when I act this way. — Madonna Ciccone

Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it. — Madonna Ciccone

Fame can be very disruptive. It can be like a drug. It gives you the feeling that you're happy, it gives you the feeling of self-importance, it gives you the feeling of fullfilment; but it can distract you from what is really important. — Madonna Ciccone

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist. — Madonna Ciccone

Once you start turning over rocks and reaching out to help people, there's a whole avalanche coming right behind it. And it seems never-ending. But when you see the fruits of your labor, you feel like it's possible. — Madonna Ciccone

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable. — Madonna Ciccone

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

I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity. — Madonna Ciccone

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me. — Madonna Ciccone

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut. — Madonna Ciccone

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

Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blond has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. — Madonna Ciccone

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge. — Madonna Ciccone

Life Lessons by Madonna Ciccone

1. Madonna Ciccone has taught us to never give up on our dreams and to always strive for success no matter what obstacles we may face.
2. She has also shown us that it is possible to reinvent yourself and to stay relevant and successful in the ever-changing music industry.
3. Finally, she has demonstrated that it is possible to use your platform to promote causes you believe in and to make a positive impact on the world.