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 grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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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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Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
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How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We’re capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.
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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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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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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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I’m a very caring person.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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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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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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