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.
AMY WINEHOUSEThere’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
More Amy Winehouse Quotes
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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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I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.
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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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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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If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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I’ve had everything pierced at some point.
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I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it.
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I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
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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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There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
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Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.
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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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There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.
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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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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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Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
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I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there’s rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
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I couldn’t resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He’s just not as tall, but I couldn’t tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
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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 can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
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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 don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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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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I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
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