Alicia Keys Quotes

Alicia Keys is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has achieved global success with her soulful voice and empowering lyrics. Keys' music spans various genres, and her talent as a musician and performer has earned her numerous awards and accolades.

I have big everything on the bottom, but I love my... -Alicia Keys

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

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I kn... -Alicia Keys

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

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

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftent... -Alicia Keys

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

I love my legs.... -Alicia Keys

I love my legs.

I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me f... -Alicia Keys

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Soul music is timeless.... -Alicia Keys

Soul music is timeless.

Discovering the context

The quote suggests that soul music possesses an enduring quality and remains relevant across time, unaffected by changing trends or eras.

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I... -Alicia Keys

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

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

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

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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