Alicia Keys Quotes

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder. ~ Alicia Keys

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive. ~ Alicia Keys

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

Still when I'm a mess
I still put on a vest
With an 'S' on my chest
Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman ~ Alicia Keys

When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up. ~ Alicia Keys

I've stepped more into my business and really ... taken control for how I want that to be. ~ Alicia Keys

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too. ~ Alicia Keys

The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way. ~ Alicia Keys

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

That though passageway came with a surprising revelation. When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability. Your heart is pierced. You're broken open. You're hyper-aware of what you're feeling. ~ Alicia Keys

I think we deserve people who really, really love us. ~ Alicia Keys

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13. ~ Alicia Keys

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass! ~ Alicia Keys

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time. ~ Alicia Keys

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

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I've met some serious aliens in my life, for sure. I'm sure you've seen a UFO. Haven't all of us seen something flying in the sky, and it's at some random time of night that doesn't make sense, and it's not the shape of a plane? I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person. ~ Alicia Keys

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

You've got to love what's yours. ~ Alicia Keys

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me. ~ Alicia Keys

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly. ~ Alicia Keys

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now ~ Alicia Keys

It's karma, baby. And it goes around. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

We adjust ourselves to fit, to adapt to others' ideas of who we should be. We shift ourselves not in sweeping pivots but in movements so tiny that they are hardly perceptible even in our view. Years can pass before we finally discover that after handing over our power, piece by small piece, we no longer even look like ourselves. ~ Alicia Keys

I love my own music. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.' ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next. ~ Alicia Keys

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting .. ~ Alicia Keys

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

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. ~ Alicia Keys

Love me like you'll never see me again. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once. ~ Alicia Keys

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history. For today we announce of Tidal, the first ever artist-owned, global music and entertainment platform. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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

If I didn't love it, I would not record it. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That's how strong my love is. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I love my heritage! ~ Alicia Keys

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it. ~ Alicia Keys

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades. ~ Alicia Keys

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

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in ... ~ Alicia Keys

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

My mom is definitely my rock. ~ Alicia Keys

I'm very happy with my body. ~ Alicia Keys

Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you. ~ Alicia Keys

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

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I'm a very caring person. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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 ~ Alicia Keys

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside. ~ Alicia Keys

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

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. ~ Alicia Keys

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're
ready for whatever. ~ Alicia Keys

Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused. ~ Alicia Keys

Simplicity makes me happy. ~ Alicia Keys

If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art. ~ Alicia Keys

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

Sometimes
Some lies
Can take a minute
To fully realize
His tears
Your eyes
Thirty seconds to apologize
You give it one more chance
Just like the time before
But he already know you'd give a hundred more
Until that night in bed
You wake up in a sweat
You're racing to the door
Can't take it anymore ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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. ~ Alicia Keys

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

It's okay to Evolve and Change, and become more of who you really are. It's okay to Become More Yourself. ~ Jeanette Coron

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. ~ Alicia Keys

I wouldn't mind being in one place for two months or so. It really doesn't sound so bad! ~ Alicia Keys

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional. ~ Alicia Keys

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

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. ~ Alicia Keys