Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
AMY WINEHOUSEMy justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
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The dark covers me and I cannot run now.
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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’m romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.
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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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I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I’m quite self-destructive.
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If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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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 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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Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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I’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know.
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I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
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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 was expecting it to be cynical because I’m like that myself. I wouldn’t want it to be all roses because life isn’t like that.
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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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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 not very ambitious at all.
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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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I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don’t think that there’s a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
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I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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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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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 always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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I can’t be arsed with game players. I’m more ‘I like you, do you like me? Let’s go and do something about it.’ I’m a very straightforward person like that.
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I would say that jazz is my own language.
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