Top 275 Quotes & Sayings by Alicia Keys - Page 5

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

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!

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.

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

A good friend of mine told me you should take a break and you should go see the world. Go somewhere. That is when I chose to go to Egypt, and so I took this beautiful trip to Egypt. It was the first time ever in my whole life I took three weeks off, and I sailed down the Nile and I saw the tombs and the temples, and I experienced a place that was so magical and so incredibly powerful and intelligent and inspiring.

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. It reminds me to live in the moment.

If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.

I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.

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.

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.

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

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.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

A lot of people, they've been saying to me, oh don't get married. It ruins everything. And I'm like, damn.

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.

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.

I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

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.

I'm very blessed to have a phenomenal husband, son, and beautiful family and friends around me.

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

And Im happy that Im not super skinny.

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.

I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

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.

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.

Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.

I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.

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.

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].

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible.

I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, "Are you doing shows?" I've just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, "You lucky girl."