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Alicia Keys Quotes

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.

Alicia Keys

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1981

Topics

Learning Writing Song Learn Play

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

Jennifer Carpenter

Business Age Trying Young Nothing

The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.

Anat Cohen

Music Growing Up Connection Jazz Up

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

Robert Redford

Work Character Fun Doing Acting TV

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.

Michael Jai White

Life Look White Done Seriously Role

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

Story Musgrave

Go Never Let Go Long-Term Telescope

Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.

Roger Penrose

Impossible Quantum Very Issue

One day, my father brings a cassette. He's showing me this, and he's like, 'Look at this guy, his name is Anthony Santos, like you.' I popped it on and started hearing the songs, the music, and I was like, 'Wow, this sounds great.'

Romeo Santos

Father Music Great Day Me Name

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player.

Mohsin Hamid

Negative American Impression Products

The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair.

Jon Postel

You Want Run Fair Rule Domain

Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.

Bruce Lipton

Life Time People Thoughts Brain You

You come to Washington, there's a rail bill, there's a highway bill, there's a aviation bill. But when you go home, there's an airport, there's a highway, there's a rail, there's transit. It all has to work together.

Anthony Foxx

Work Home Together You Go Airport

It comes down to the simple idea that government has grown substantially under Barack Obama, and government has been a failure in American's lives, and Hillary Clinton wants to grow government even further. I think Donald Trump wants to restrain government and shrink government.

Sean Duffy

Failure Simple Government Think Grow