Alicia Keys Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.

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  Song, Eye, Keys

• 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.

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  Song, Inspiration, Done

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

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  Song, Tiny, Honestly

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

• Only joy comes from song.

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  Song, Joy

  Song: Caged Bird, Album: Songs in A Minor, 2001

• When I did get signed and I was going around letting people know what I was about, that's exactly how I did it: me on the piano, playing a couple of songs I'd written and talking to the people in between. That's how I got my performance chops up.

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  Song, Couple, Talking

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

• The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

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  Song, Depends, Arrangements

  "6 Questions With Alicia Keys". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. October 20, 2005.

• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Play

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