Alicia Keys Quotes

#1. I think it's the ego in us that screws us up. - Author: Alicia Keys

#2. You're stronger, and you're better, and you're
ready for whatever. - Author: Alicia Keys

#3. Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it. - Author: Alicia Keys

#4. It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been. - Author: Alicia Keys

#5. Only joy comes from song. - Author: Alicia Keys

#6. Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up. - Author: Alicia Keys

#7. To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up. - Author: Alicia Keys

#8. Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back. - Author: Alicia Keys

#9. All women are NATURALLY, bad ass! - Author: Alicia Keys

#10. I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body. - Author: Alicia Keys

#11. Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall. - Author: Alicia Keys

#12. My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. - Author: Alicia Keys

#13. Love me like you'll never see me again. - Author: Alicia Keys

#14. I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend. - Author: Alicia Keys

#15. I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down. - Author: Alicia Keys

#16. I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life. - Author: Alicia Keys

#17. Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world. - Author: Alicia Keys

#18. A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world. - Author: Alicia Keys

#19. There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything. - Author: Alicia Keys

#20. And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head. - Author: Alicia Keys

#21. I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something. - Author: Alicia Keys

#22. The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so. - Author: Alicia Keys

#23. It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential. - Author: Alicia Keys

#24. If I didn't love it, I would not record it. - Author: Alicia Keys

#25. People don't expect me to be as funny as I am. - Author: Alicia Keys

#26. When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. - Author: Alicia Keys

#27. Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me. - Author: Alicia Keys

#28. I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from. - Author: Alicia Keys

#29. When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. - Author: Alicia Keys

#30. I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life. - Author: Alicia Keys

#31. When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. - Author: Alicia Keys

#32. Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it. - Author: Alicia Keys

#33. I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder. - Author: Alicia Keys

#34. My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.' - Author: Alicia Keys

#35. My mom is definitely my rock. - Author: Alicia Keys

#36. You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next. - Author: Alicia Keys

#37. Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail. - Author: Alicia Keys

#38. No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself. - Author: Alicia Keys

#39. My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself. - Author: Alicia Keys

#40. He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in ... - Author: Alicia Keys

#41. I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say. - Author: Alicia Keys

#42. Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly. - Author: Alicia Keys

#43. Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language. - Author: Alicia Keys

#44. I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. - Author: Alicia Keys

#45. My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world. - Author: Alicia Keys

#46. I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager. - Author: Alicia Keys

#47. I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work. - Author: Alicia Keys

#48. The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know. - Author: Alicia Keys

#49. I'm very happy with my body. - Author: Alicia Keys

#50. You are what you listen to - Author: Alicia Keys

#51. I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous. - Author: Alicia Keys

#52. You've got to love what's yours. - Author: Alicia Keys

#53. I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now. - Author: Alicia Keys

#54. Every moment is beautiful; delicious even! - Author: Alicia Keys

#55. At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive. - Author: Alicia Keys

#56. I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions. - Author: Alicia Keys

#57. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements. - Author: Alicia Keys

#58. We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think. - Author: Alicia Keys

#59. I love my own music. - Author: Alicia Keys

#60. I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me. - Author: Alicia Keys

#61. Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something. - Author: Alicia Keys

#62. No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting .. - Author: Alicia Keys

#63. Maturity and experience are part of my liberation. - Author: Alicia Keys

#64. I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.' - Author: Alicia Keys

#65. Everything's gonna be alright. - Author: Alicia Keys

#66. I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. - Author: Alicia Keys

#67. I've found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child - Author: Alicia Keys

#68. Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That's how strong my love is. - Author: Alicia Keys

#69. A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes. - Author: Alicia Keys

#70. I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it. - Author: Alicia Keys

#71. I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same
time, Biggie is my dog. - Author: Alicia Keys

#72. All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing. - Author: Alicia Keys

#73. I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it. - Author: Alicia Keys

#74. I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show. - Author: Alicia Keys

#75. Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go. - Author: Alicia Keys

#76. Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you baby
If I ain't got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, Yeah - Author: Alicia Keys

#77. I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad! - Author: Alicia Keys

#78. I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world. - Author: Alicia Keys

#79. Cause I am a Superwoman,
Yes I am,
Yes she is,
Even when I'm a mess,
I still put on a vest,
With an S on my chest,
Oh yes,
I'm a Superwoman,
...
And all my sisters,
Coming together,
Say yes I will,
Yes I can - Author: Alicia Keys

#80. I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too. - Author: Alicia Keys

#81. I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do. - Author: Alicia Keys

#82. I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional. - Author: Alicia Keys

#83. Why give up before we try? - Author: Alicia Keys

#84. A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn. - Author: Alicia Keys

#85. You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try. - Author: Alicia Keys

#86. I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me. - Author: Alicia Keys

#87. I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive. - Author: Alicia Keys

#88. If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice. - Author: Alicia Keys

#89. I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part. - Author: Alicia Keys

#90. Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned ... another lesson learned - Author: Alicia Keys

#91. I love my heritage! - Author: Alicia Keys

#92. You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are. - Author: Alicia Keys

#93. I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally. - Author: Alicia Keys

#94. Still when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an 'S' on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman - Author: Alicia Keys

#95. I believe Aids is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people. - Author: Alicia Keys

#96. I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before. - Author: Alicia Keys

#97. Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate ... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired. - Author: Alicia Keys

#98. Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once. - Author: Alicia Keys

#99. From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with. - Author: Alicia Keys

#100. What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving. - Author: Alicia Keys