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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
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Harlem
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Alicia J. Augello Cook
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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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He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.
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I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.
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To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten in this crazy world - that's why I got involved with Frum Tha Ground Up.
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If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.
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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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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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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.
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I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.
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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.
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The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
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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.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.
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I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.
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I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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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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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.
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