The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
AMY WINEHOUSEWhen 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.
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
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We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.
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Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
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I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.
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If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.
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To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.
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I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
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If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.
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Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what’s given to you on a plate.
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I’ve had everything pierced at some point.
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I would say that jazz is my own language.
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I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good.
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Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
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You’ve got a degree in philosophy; so you think you’re cleverer than me. But I’m not just some drama queen. Cause it’s where you’re at, not where you’ve been.
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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 love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
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A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs.
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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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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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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’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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My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.
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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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I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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