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.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I would say that jazz is my own language.
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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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I don’t understand, Why do I stress the man, When there’s so many bigger things at hand?
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Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.
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I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
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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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Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
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I never went round to loads of managers saying ‘this is what I have, this is my product and I’m going to be famous so you’d better sign me up.’ They came to me.
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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’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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I can’t help you if you won’t help yourself.
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It’s important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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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 like stylish men although I’m someone who sees a man who’s not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I’m a typical Jewish woman like that.
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