Hamilton and Peggy! Quotes

“What’s the point of loving, if you don’t feel it utterly?”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

“That takes such active, intelligent creativity, analyzing the emotions a composer intends in those scratchy notes on a page, learning and perfecting the technique that gives you the skill to bring those skeletal notations to full-fleshed life in your performance. As far as I am concerned, Eliza, that is the greatest act of intelligence a human being is capable of. Music is air made rapturous, achieving the sublime, catching the harmony of the spheres for a fleeting moment so we can hear it. It is the closest we get to God. So, therefore, it is pure brilliance of the soul.”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

“She shrugged. "Whether you care to admit it or not, we have met."
"Perhaps in a dream, then?" he quipped.
"Hardly. More of a nightmare, I'd call it.”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

“God save great Washington, Fair Freedom's chosen son;
Long to command.
Next in our Song shall be, Gaurdian of Liberty,
Louis the King
Terrible god of War.'
Lafayette sprung to his feet. 'Vive la France! Vivez l'Amerique! Vive George Washington!”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

“Music is the air made rapturous, achieving the sublime, capturing the harmony of the spheres for a fleeting moment so we can hear it. It is the closest we get to God. So, therefore, it is pure brilliance of the soul.”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship

“It can be hard to be the younger sister of learned and witty and captivating woman. Out of fear to be compared and found wanting, it is safer sometimes to remain quiet.”
― L.M. Elliott, Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship