Alicia Keys quotes

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
-- Alicia Keys

#Who I Am #Want #Stay Focused

At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
-- Alicia Keys

#Mean #Being Real #The End Of The Day

You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.
-- Alicia Keys

#Inspirational #Stronger #Ready

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.
-- Alicia Keys

#Thinking #Vocabulary #Made

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.
-- Alicia Keys

#Curves #Body #Ashamed

Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.
-- Alicia Keys

#Crazy #Car #Pet

My mom is definitely my rock.
-- Alicia Keys

#Mom #Motherhood #Rocks

Business 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.
-- Alicia Keys

#Important #Next #Spit

I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.
-- Alicia Keys

#Israel #And Love #Looks

The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.
-- Alicia Keys

#Believe #Artist #Thinking

A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
-- Alicia Keys

#Song #Eye #Keys

I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.
-- Alicia Keys

#Dream #Writing #Helping Others

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman
-- Alicia Keys

#Vests #Superwoman #Mess

I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.
-- Alicia Keys

#Thinking #Voice #People

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
-- Alicia Keys

#Real #Nice #Long

I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.
-- Alicia Keys

#Space #Aliens #Feels

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
-- Alicia Keys

#Inspiring #Art #People

Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].
-- Alicia Keys

#Careers #People #Stones

Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
-- Alicia Keys

#Opportunity #World #Want

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
-- Alicia Keys

#Song #Tiny #Honestly

Everything you want to be, you already are. You're simply on the path to discovering it.
-- Alicia Keys

#Want #Path #Discovering

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
-- Alicia Keys

#Mother #Acting #World

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.
-- Alicia Keys

#Powerful #Tired #Egypt

A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.
-- Alicia Keys

#Opportunity #Watches #World

Simplicity makes me happy.
-- Alicia Keys

#Simplicity #Make Me Happy

I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
-- Alicia Keys

What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.
-- Alicia Keys

#Morning #Opportunity #Opposites

Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
-- Alicia Keys

#Horse #Style #Rolling

I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.
-- Alicia Keys

#Character #Hair #People

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
-- Alicia Keys

#Music #Play #Piano

I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.
-- Alicia Keys

#Singing #Acting #Musician

I'm very happy with my body.
-- Alicia Keys

#Body #Very Happy

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
-- Alicia Keys

#Mother #Father #Italian

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
-- Alicia Keys

#Fashion #Inspirational Life #Rocks

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
-- Alicia Keys

#Fashion #Keys #Living My Life

Soul music is timeless.
-- Alicia Keys

#Soul #Timeless #Music Is