I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
AMY WINEHOUSELife’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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I’m happiest with my family around me.
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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 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 don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
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I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.
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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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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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I’m much healthier now.
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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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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I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good.
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I’m not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I’m not saying, ‘I’m sooo not famous,’ I’m trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.
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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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I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.
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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 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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If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.
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The more people see of me, the more they’ll realize that all I’m good for is making tunes.
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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 love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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I’ve always written poetry but I didn’t realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That’s when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.
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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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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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There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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