Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

I'm inspired by many of my friends, colleagues, and the extraordinary people I've been fortunate enough to meet along the way.

Alicia Keys

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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

Madeleine Peyroux
- People
- Important
- Long
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.

Zola Jesus
- Know
- Me
- Stupid
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

Karen DeCrow
- School
- Thing
- Athletics
Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

Edith Pearlman
- Architecture
- Building
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

Natasha Richardson
- Up
- World
- Thoughts
The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

Oscar Isaac
- Know
- Kind
- Credit