Top 100 Quotes About Alicia Keys
#1. I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.
Bruno Mars
#2. I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
Ben E. King
#3. I used to play the piano when I was younger, and I loved Alicia Keys. I wanted to be Alicia Keys; she was such an idol to me.
Katy B
#5. My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.
Clive Davis
#6. I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
Zola Jesus
#7. I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
Laurieann Gibson
#8. I love pop music ... some hip hop ... not super big into rap, but I love Rihanna. I love Alicia Keys. Rihanna was my first concert I went to. I love her.
Gracie Gold
#9. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
Q-Tip
#10. I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
Melanie Fiona
#11. I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
Ariana Grande
#12. I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#13. I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
Queen Latifah
#14. But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
John Legend
#15. I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.
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#23. I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.
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#24. I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
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#25. I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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#27. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
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#28. I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same
time, Biggie is my dog.
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#29. I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.
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#30. 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.
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#31. Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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#32. Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That's how strong my love is.
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#33. I'd rather not have anything than be a liar.
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#34. I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.
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#35. I've found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child
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#36. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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#40. Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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#41. No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..
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#42. 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.
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#43. Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
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#44. 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.
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#46. There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
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#47. We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
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#48. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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#52. I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
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#53. Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!
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#54. We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
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#57. I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw you into this personal space, but it's still lyrical. It's almost poetic, in a way, but it's very personal at the same time.
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#59. I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
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#60. I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'
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#61. If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.
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#62. We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
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#63. I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.
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#64. I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.
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#65. I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.
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#66. I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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#70. I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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#71. Sometimes you just have to do whats best for yourself.
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#72. When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Still when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an 'S' on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
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#78. I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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#79. I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
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#80. 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.
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#82. 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
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#83. Why give up before we try
Feel the lows before the highs
Clip our wings before we fly away
I can't say I came prepared
I'm suspended in the air
Won't you come be in the sky with me
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#84. I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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#85. 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
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#86. If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.
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#87. I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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#88. Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
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#89. I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
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#90. 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.
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#91. I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
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#92. My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
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#93. Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.
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#96. A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.
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#98. I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.
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#99. 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.
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#100. The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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