Alicia Keys Quotes

I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

It doesn't matter what people feel about you because everyone is going to have an opinion.

Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Everyone has an opinion. That's just a crazy part of this world now. You can type things on the internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want. I know where I come from and where I want to go. I know I'm 100% ready. Everyone else seems to have an opinion, and claim to know, whether I am or I'm not. I would love to see all the people who run their mouths try and do what I do. Because they can't.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on.

You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.