100+ Inspirational Lady Gaga Quotes [2024] American Singer & Actress

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Updated: January 20th, 2022

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, professionally known by the name Lady Gaga, is an American Singer, and Songwriter who is globally famous for her numerous hit numbers.

Lady Gaga's five succeeding studio albums are all listed on the US Billboard 200. Having sold 124 million records as of the year 2014, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the fourth top-earning female musician of the year 2010 in the world.

She won 12 Grammy Awards, 18 MTV Video Music Awards, and 16 Guinness World Records.

We've put together an incredible collection of Lady Gaga quotes to read.

Here they are:

100+ Inspirational Lady Gaga Quotes [2024] American Singer & Actress

List of Inspiring Lady Gaga Quotes

It's cooler to be strong. -- Lady Gaga

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. -- Lady Gaga

Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. -- Lady Gaga

Who's to say I'm not an entirely different person? Because I am. You have to understand, five years ago I was a waitress. -- Lady Gaga

It’s not that I’ve been dishonest, it’s just that I loathe reality. -- Lady Gaga

You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine. -- Lady Gaga

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans. -- Lady Gaga

I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my show. -- Lady Gaga

When you wanna do something and that little impulse goes off in your brain and says ‘Ooh, don’t do it!’, you gotta go for it. That’s how you’re gonna be the person you wanna be. -- Lady Gaga

Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart -- Lady Gaga

I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much. -- Lady Gaga

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger. -- Lady Gaga

I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me. -- Lady Gaga

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much. -- Lady Gaga

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay. -- Lady Gaga

Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and I'm a hard girl, Loving me is like chewing on pearls. -- Lady Gaga

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me. -- Lady Gaga

We are not just art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart. -- Lady Gaga

For all my love little monsters I am your mom you are my child in my hand I protect you like my eyes but don't worry I'll catch you if you fall. -- Lady Gaga

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection. -- Lady Gaga

You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. -- Lady Gaga

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. -- Lady Gaga

We need fantasy to survive reality. -- Lady Gaga

I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul. -- Lady Gaga

Meditation helps me to calm down. -- Lady Gaga

It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you. -- Lady Gaga

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult. -- Lady Gaga

I am a free bitch baby. -Lady Gaga

I don't need anybody's permission to be remembered. I will be. Whether they like it or not. -- Lady Gaga

Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping? -- Lady Gaga

You can't stop my voice cause you don't own my life but do what you want with my body. -- Lady Gaga

Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you're ashamed of. -- Lady Gaga

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think. -- Lady Gaga

You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life. -- Lady Gaga

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians. -- Lady Gaga

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band-aid in public. -- Lady Gaga

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what. -- Lady Gaga

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing. -- Lady Gaga

I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself. -- Lady Gaga

Just remember: I love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby. -- Lady Gaga

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. -- Lady Gaga

People ask me why I wear veils. I reply I am mourning. Mourning what? Well, I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere. -- Lady Gaga

Well, my music was different in high school; I was singing about love, you know, things I don't care about anymore. -- Lady Gaga

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy. -- Lady Gaga

There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face. -- Lady Gaga

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen. -- Lady Gaga

Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you'll always have yourself. -- Lady Gaga

When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. -- Lady Gaga

They can't scare me if I scare them first. -- Lady Gaga

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. -- Lady Gaga

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more. -- Lady Gaga

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it. -- Lady Gaga

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again. -- Lady Gaga

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100 lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks. -- Lady Gaga

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist. -- Lady Gaga

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch. -- Lady Gaga

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am. -- Lady Gaga

Live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other. -- Lady Gaga

My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them. -- Lady Gaga

I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business. -- Lady Gaga

Never be afraid to dream. -- Lady Gaga

I want women and men to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish. -- Lady Gaga

This is who the fuck I am. -- Lady Gaga

I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star. I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth. -- Lady Gaga

You will never find what you are looking for in love if you don't love yourself. -- Lady Gaga

As artists, we are eternally heartbroken. -- Lady Gaga

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass. -- Lady Gaga

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. -- Lady Gaga

You define beauty yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. -- Lady Gaga

How can I protect something so perfect without evil. -- Lady Gaga

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away. -- Lady Gaga

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet. -- Lady Gaga

Sometimes in life, you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. -- Lady Gaga

I hate the truth so much that i'd rather have a giant dose of bullshitt anyday. -- Lady Gaga

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. -- Lady Gaga

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. -- Lady Gaga

I don’t say I dress sexily on stage. What I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.' -- Lady Gaga

It’s always wrong to hate, but it’s never wrong to love. -- Lady Gaga

If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. -Lady Gaga

My friend's joke that I’m dead until I get on stage. I'm dead right now as you’ are speaking to me. -- Lady Gaga

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way. -- Lady Gaga

I am just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. -- Lady Gaga

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself. -- Lady Gaga

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,' Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today. -- Lady Gaga

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. -- Lady Gaga

I am telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true. -- Lady Gaga

Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line. -- Lady Gaga

I am very free-spirited. -- Lady Gaga

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever. -- Lady Gaga

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way. -- Lady Gaga

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. -- Lady Gaga

All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. -- Lady Gaga

Love is just a history that they may prove and when you're gone I'll tell them my religion is you. -- Lady Gaga

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself. -- Lady Gaga

Money can run out, but talent is forever. -- Lady Gaga

Nothing that we do together has a finish line. You & I, Little Monsters, we are eternal. -- Lady Gaga

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life. -- Lady Gaga

If you don't have any shadows you're not in the light. -- Lady Gaga

Don't be insecure if your heart is pure. -- Lady Gaga

You can't have my heart and you won't use my mind, but do what you want with my body. -- Lady Gaga

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness. -- Lady Gaga

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way. -- Lady Gaga

People will always talk, so let's give them something to talk about. -- Lady Gaga

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. -- Lady Gaga

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