Quote

I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'

Alicia Keys

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Never
Promised
Admit
Block
Listening
Actually
Kids

More quotes by Alicia Keys

Image
I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.
Alicia Keys
Image
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
Alicia Keys
Image
Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.
Alicia Keys
Image
Living will always be a struggle looking for someone to love you.
Alicia Keys
Image
Why give up before we try?
Alicia Keys
Image
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.
Alicia Keys
Image
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
Image
Prayer keeps me centered.
Alicia Keys
Image
You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
Alicia Keys
Image
Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.
Alicia Keys
Image
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
Image
The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.
Alicia Keys
Image
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
Image
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
Alicia Keys
Image
I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.
Alicia Keys
Image
Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.
Alicia Keys
Image
We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.
Alicia Keys
Image
When I was a kid I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out on the stoop and blast the radio. I'm from New York, the concrete jungle. Hip-hop influenced me from day one.
Alicia Keys
Image
The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.
Alicia Keys
Image
We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
Alicia Keys