Alicia Keys Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Alicia Keys Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Alicia Keys Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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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I love the written word so much, I know it’s gonna flow naturally.

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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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I love my legs.

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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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I’ve always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I’ve made in my life.

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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice – you have to put in six.

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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

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When you’re talented, you’re talented.

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I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my legs. You’ve got to love what’s yours.

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My mom is definitely my rock.

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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.

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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.

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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.

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I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.

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Simplicity makes me happy.

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I’m the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.

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I love my heritage!

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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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I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish–Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.

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I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.

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You’ve got to love what’s yours.

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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

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I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

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I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

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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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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

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Things can be really empty in this world, and I don’t just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don’t really understand: ‘who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?’ To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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We are all one. We’re not as separate as we oftentimes think.

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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.

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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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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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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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I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

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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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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

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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.

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I’m a very caring person.

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Sometimes I’ve gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

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I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.

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I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood.

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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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Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

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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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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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I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

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I love my own music.

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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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