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Alicia Keys Quotes

American - Musician | January 25, 1981 -

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.

Love Day New York Me Jungle New

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

Myself Woman Me Black America Seen

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.

Strength Fire Me You Powerful Know

I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

Uncomfortable Dream Something Going

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.

Experience Me Remember Play Desire

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

Mother Relationship Parents World Up

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

I Am Skin Belief Worst Colour Hang

I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.

Myself Find Place Passionate Primal

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

Love Great You Concepts Lyrics Hear

How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.

Love Journey I Am People Me Blessed

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