Alicia Keys ,quotes

The desire to play has always...

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

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Music is funny. I shouldn't e...

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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My parents weren't married. I...

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

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When I first started getting ...

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 don't have a ton of friends...

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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We have the potential to help...

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'd rather believe in my own ...

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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Failure isn't an option. I've...

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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A Minor is one of my all-time...

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 lived with my mom in a real...

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 have my mother who is an Ir...

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 am able to hang with the ha...

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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From the beginning, I've had ...

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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My mixed-race background made...

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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It's when we become afraid of...

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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I've always been very private...

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

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Adam Levine and I remade the ...

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 think I grew up really fast...

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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I just wanted to be who I was...

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 practis...

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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