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.
AMY WINEHOUSEHaving 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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can’t control or change.
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People say my content’s mature, I don’t think it’s mature at all. I’m just a normal 20 year old. I’m opinionated.
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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 had everything pierced at some point.
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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
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I love to live and I live to love.
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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’m not very ambitious at all.
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I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.
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I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.
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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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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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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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I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.
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