I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip. — 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
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician. — 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
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
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first.… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and… — 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
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I like to incorporate classical songs that people know and throw a beat and some guitars on it to make it real… — 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… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless… — 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
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
I'm tired of the carbon copies and the music that is only interesting for about a week. I feel the sadness in… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy -… — 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
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff… — 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
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
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
Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
There's something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd. — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
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 Image
