Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSEI 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.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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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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Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
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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 think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
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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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I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.
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Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship as someone who was a pioneer.
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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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Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.
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I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.
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I’ve always had my own style, I’ve always been different. I don’t like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it’s very important for me to make a statement.
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I wouldn’t be with a man who was scared of me, but I don’t think men are scared of me – look at me, I’m tiny. I don’t think I’m capable of putting anyone off. I’m a nice girl.
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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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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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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’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know.
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I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
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I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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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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If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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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 had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it’s not about being loud, it’s about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.
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If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.
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I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.
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