Alicia Keys Quotes

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.