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

Alicia Keys Quotes

Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.

— Alicia Keys

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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.

— Alicia Keys

I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, “Are you doing shows?” I’ve just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, “You lucky girl.”

— Alicia Keys

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.

— Alicia Keys

I’m so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that’s the tricky part.

— Alicia Keys

You don’t know what will happen from one minute to the next.

— Alicia Keys

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.

— Alicia Keys

I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don’t really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.

— Alicia Keys

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

— Alicia Keys

I think it’s the ego in us that screws us up.

— Alicia Keys

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you’re like, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone here with me.

— Alicia Keys

Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what’s going on in the world. And it’s also important to state what we think. There’s like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that’s really messed up.

— Alicia Keys

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

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

— Alicia Keys

I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people’s minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.

— Alicia Keys

A lot of people, they’ve been saying to me, oh don’t get married. It ruins everything. And I’m like, damn.

— Alicia Keys

I learned the cello, but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.

— Alicia Keys

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

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

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

— Alicia Keys

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