When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don’t happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.
AMY WINEHOUSEI had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it’s not about being loud, it’s about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I can’t help you if you won’t help yourself.
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I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
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And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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I don’t ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend.
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Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
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Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
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I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it.
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My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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No. No. I don’t listen to anyone except my … inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn’t – I don’t think I would have listened anyway.
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Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
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I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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I’ve never been an idiot – I was a smart girl but I’d do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.
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I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
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I’m planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
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The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
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I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t.
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I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
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I don’t listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It’s all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You’d have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldn’t sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
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Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.
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When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.
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Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.
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I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
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I love to live and I live to love.
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