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It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Presenter
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
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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 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.
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We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging.
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The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.
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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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Only joy comes from song.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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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 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.
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Why give up before we try?
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We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.
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I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
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With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.
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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
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