Top 275 Quotes & Sayings by Alicia Keys

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Alicia Augello Cook, known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was critically and commercially successful, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. It spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'", and earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and commercial success, selling eight million copies worldwide, and producing the singles "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You", and "Diary". The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards.

American - Musician | Born: January 25, 1981

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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 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 always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

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

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Simplicity makes me happy.

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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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Soul music is timeless.

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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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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.

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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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I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

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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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When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.

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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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My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.'

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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 love my own music.

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I love my heritage!

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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

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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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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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My mom is definitely my rock.

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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You've got to love what's yours.

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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

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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.

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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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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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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 see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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'd rather not have anything than be a liar.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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 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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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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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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