Top 180 Alicia Keys Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t worry because everything’s gonna be alright.”

— Alicia Keys

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2. “Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly.”

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3. “Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.”

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4. “No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.”

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5. “You are what you listen to.”

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6. “Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.”

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7. “Love me like you’ll never see me again.”

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8. “Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.”

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9. “It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.”

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10. “Some people want it all But I don’t want nothing at all If it ain’t you baby If I ain’t got you baby Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain’t got you, Yeah.”

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11. “Soul music is timeless.”

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12. “All of us are different. That’s what makes us interesting and special. I don’t want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I’ve learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.”

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13. “Simplicity makes me happy.”

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14. “Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.”

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15. “Why give up before we try?”

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16. “Sometimes I feel good, at times I feel used. Loving you darling, makes me so confused.”

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17. “I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.”

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18. “Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.”

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19. “All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!”

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20. “I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.”

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21. “My life is rich because I have those kinds of people in my life.”

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22. “I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “When you’ve chosen the right path for yourself, you usually know it immediately. The choice just sits right in your spirit. You’re not second-guessing your decision or thinking about turning back. You realize there are challenges ahead, but you’re not looking over your shoulder, wishing you’d gone left instead of right at the last fork in the road.”

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25. “I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.”

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26. “If your family – just because they’re blood doesn’t mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.”

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27. “Growth requires movement. And often, the only way forward is through an exit door.”

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28. “You don’t know what will happen from one minute to the next.”

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29. “If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.”

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30. “What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.”

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31. “If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want – I go to the bathroom.”

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32. “The path to self-discovery is not a straight line. It’s a zigzag. We move in and out of awareness: one step forward, three steps to the left, a baby step back, another leap forward. A lightbulb moment might shine brightly one day, but then flicker the next. It takes work to hold tightly to a certain consciousness, to live in its wisdom. Every day, I have to intentionally maintain an awareness of my value.”

— Alicia Keys

33. “I’m a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that’s not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.”

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34. “I think we deserve people who really, really love us.”

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35. “I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.”

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36. “But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.”

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37. “Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it’s really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.”

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38. “Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.”

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39. “When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.”

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40. “An aha moment is not a happy ending – it’s an open doorway, one you have to choose to walk through.”

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41. “Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word ‘fear’ from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can’t fail.”

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42. “I’m the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India.”

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43. “Nothing but uncertainty is certain. Circumstances come together, only to fall apart moments or months later. And then, in a flash, we must rise up and regain our footing. In the rearview mirror, I now see so clearly what escaped me then: It’s not that the ground underneath me was suddenly shifting; it’s that it is never still. That’s part of the work of my journey – getting comfortable with life’s groundlessness.”

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44. “You’re at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you’re doing something you’ve never done before. You’re scared a little, you’re a little vulnerable, you’re kind of trying, and then you’re also better, because you’re trying harder than you maybe would try.”

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45. “You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.”

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46. “I don’t think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There’s still pieces of you that you don’t give away. I do believe you always need that place where it’s just you, your thoughts, no one else’s judgment or anything.”

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47. “We are all one. We’re not as separate as we oftentimes think.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “I’m a very caring person.”

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50. “I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.”

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