The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
ALICIA KEYSBusiness can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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Prayer keeps me centered.
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I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
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Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.
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I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
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Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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I know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.
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I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
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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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Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
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I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
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