How you look is your statement, because it’s a claiming of yourself.
ALICIA KEYSYou 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.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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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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Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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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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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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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
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There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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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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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 really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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Falling 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.
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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