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Wake Up Quotes

Reflections on mornings, routines, and the reasons we rise.

This set ranges from disciplined sleep schedules and early rising to more reflective moments — mourning a loss, noticing music from the first hour of the day, or realizing an activist's path chose itself. Pair it with Day quotes for more on how people frame their daily rhythm.

I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing,...

Quotes by Adrian Younge

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

Quotes by Adam Sandler

I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.

Quotes by Action Bronson

I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

Day Quotes

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

Every morning I wake up and thank God.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

Quotes by Aaron Judge

In fact, everybody should wake up smelling nice. I go further, there is not an excuse, ever, not to smell nice, particularly your feet.

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Go Quotes

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Quotes by Zoe Saldana

I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.

Quotes by Yuri Kochiyama

Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I...

Quotes by Young Thug

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

Quotes by Yann Tiersen

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake...

Quotes by Wendy Kopp

Like Quotes

When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial. Albert Ayler came walking in playing, real out there. He was actually mourning through his horn. Mourning, but it was also like a call to wake up. Wake...

Quotes by Wayne Shorter

The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding...

Quotes by Virgil Goode

I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.

Quotes by Victoria Beckham

I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into...

Quotes by Vicky Krieps

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

Quotes by Vanity

Me Quotes

I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!

Quotes by Twinkle Khanna

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "wake up" quotes cover?
It ranges from a sleep-schedule routine, to a musician's memorial tribute, music as an all-day presence, and becoming an activist gradually rather than all at once.
Is there a quote about someone's sleep schedule?
Yes: "I'll get up at 5 or 6." The same quote adds that during the week the ideal is "to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later."
Does a quote describe music as ever-present in someone's day?
Yes: "Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed." See the Day collection for related quotes.
Is there a quote about a musician's memorial tribute?
Yes: "When John Coltrane passed, we were in the church for the memorial." The speaker recalls that fellow musician Albert Ayler "was actually mourning through his horn."
Does a quote touch on becoming an activist?
Yes: "I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices."

A few quotes link waking up to noticing injustice rather than deciding to act on it, a theme worth reading alongside Like and Me quotes.