Song Quotes by Alicia Keys

Only joy comes from song.

— Alicia Keys

I love my own music.

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

My music doesn't have a beginning or end. It's continuous.

— Alicia Keys

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

— Alicia Keys

I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.

— Alicia Keys

I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.

— Alicia Keys

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

— Alicia Keys

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know…

— Alicia Keys

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

— Alicia Keys

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

— Alicia Keys

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

— Alicia Keys

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

I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so…

— Alicia Keys

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

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

— Alicia Keys

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

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace…

— Alicia Keys

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

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

So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today…

— Alicia Keys

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

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

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

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