Your life can become the background for the art you create.
ALICIA KEYSFalling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
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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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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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 am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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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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How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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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 find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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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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I’ve stepped more into my womanhood, I’m a mother now, I’m having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
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