The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
ALICIA KEYSI think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
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I’m very happy with my body.
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You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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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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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
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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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Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
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I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it’s not going to drive you.
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I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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