I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
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… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences -… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous. I didn't stop writing after the first album came out and everything… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real crazy. It's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
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… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self. — Alicia Keys Copy Share
I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's… — Alicia Keys Copy Share
