Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.
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More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.
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To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.
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I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
