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Why give up before we try?
Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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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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Simplicity makes me happy.
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If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
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If I didn't love it, I would not record it.
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You 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.
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Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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My mom is definitely my rock.
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I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
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I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.
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Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.
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You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.
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Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.
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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.
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Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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