I 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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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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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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
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I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.
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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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I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.
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It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?
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I would say that jazz is my own language.
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If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.
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I wouldn’t be with a man who was scared of me, but I don’t think men are scared of me – look at me, I’m tiny. I don’t think I’m capable of putting anyone off. I’m a nice girl.
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My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.
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I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.
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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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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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