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Alicia Keys
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 25
,
1981
Love
Me
Mother
Music
People
You
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I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.
Alicia Keys
Always
Been
Wonder
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.
Alicia Keys
Day
Me
Walk
Long
Would
See
Long Day
Weird
Feel
House
Make
Want
After
Grammys
Awards
Thing
Last
Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys
Me
You
People
Free
Whatever
Side
Once
See
Inspired
Head
Feel
Spontaneity
Another
Passionate
Just
Where
Want
Happens
Them
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
Learning
Song
Writing
First
Favorite
Backward
Take
Songs
Learn
Around
Experimenting
Them
Then
Chords
Play
Twist
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.
Alicia Keys
Strength
Me
You
Fire
Something
Through
Powerful
Unstoppable
Know
Because
How
Very
Get
Element
I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.
Alicia Keys
Myself
Everything
Find
Primal
Passionate
Truly
Place
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys
Love
You
Confidence
Somebody
Kick
Gives
Head
Boxing
Lot
Fun
But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
Alicia Keys
Love
Me
First
Piano
Knew
Fell
Dying
Play
I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
Alicia Keys
Better
Matter
Sides
Record
Feel
Like
Always
Whose
I love my own music.
Alicia Keys
Love
Music
Own
My Own
I'm very happy with my body.
Alicia Keys
Happy
Very
Body
It's not until I hear songs that I've done, that I realize how much of an inspiration music from the '60s and '70s has been.
Alicia Keys
Music
Has-Been
Inspiration
Songs
Until
How
How Much
Hear
Been
Done
Realize
Much
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys
Me
Mother
Reading
She
Theater
Used
Actress
Drag
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.
Alicia Keys
Mother
Father
Spice
Buds
Italian
Taste
African
Who
We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.
Alicia Keys
Change
Otherwise
Boring
Going
I love my heritage! 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.
Alicia Keys
Love
Mother
Father
Heritage
Spice
Buds
Italian
Taste
African
Who
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.
Alicia Keys
Music
Me
Dark
Made
Would
Inside
Shadowy
Something
Counterpart
Feel
His
Hand
Left
Mock
Blue
While
Mozart
Realized
Using
Play
Right
For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.
Alicia Keys
Me
You
Singing
Live
Possibility
Thrill
Perfect
Excitement
Doing
Gonna
Show
I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.
Alicia Keys
Wonderful
Mother
Emotional
Because
Always
Private
Been
Discovered
Very
Maybe
Lady
Who
I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
Alicia Keys
Love
Music
Art
Musicians
People
Wonderful
World
Inspired
Writers
New
Talented
Talented People
New Music
Discovering
Artists
Many
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.
Alicia Keys
Conflict
People
Poverty
Nothing
Think
Too
Other
Way
Out
Potential
Because
Disease
Often
Turn
Help
Help People
Slavery
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
Funny
Music
You
Think
Way
Exactly
Exactly The Way
About
Never
Head
Ideas
Talk
Because
Go
Goes
Gonna
Your
Even
Ever
I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.
Alicia Keys
Me
You
People
Will
Down
Believe
Solid
Destroyed
Because
Around
Get
Decent
Decent People
Bringing
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Alicia Keys
Myself
Me
Big
Paper
Pen
Ability
Put
Clearly
Most
Blessings
Also
Verbally
Up
Times
Wall
Curses
Your
Express
Expressing
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
Alicia Keys
You
Mother
Nothing
Else
Piano
Had
Know
Were
Needed
I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.
Alicia Keys
Love
You
People
Gone
More
Know
Maybe
Jail
Just
Stop
Just As Much
Loving
Mean
Them
Much
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