“I’m not in this to make money. I’m not in this to be a star.”
“I can’t help you if you don’t let me help you.”
“I think I’m just jazz, you know, everything at once. It’s a little bit old, a little bit new.”
“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”
“There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.”
“I would say that jazz is my own language.”
“I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre. I always want it to be excellent.”
“I don’t ever want to do anything to make me embarrassed in front of myself.”
Amy Winehouse Quotes :
“I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre.”
“I think we have to be who we are. Don’t try to be anyone else.”
“I don’t know if it’s embarrassing, but I find myself getting awfully turned on by myself.”
“I don’t care about all that pop stuff and I couldn’t go to the Smash Hits poll winners’ party without bringing a gun.”
“I’m quite an insecure person. I’m very insecure about myself and how I come across.”
“I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.”
“I can’t help but demonstrate my emotions. I have to be an actress to hide my feelings.”
“I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“I believe you only get to be in real love once.”
“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they want to do for the rest of their lives. The time they spend thinking about it, I’ve already spent doing it.”
“I’m really happy with the way my life is.”
“I don’t care about all that pop stuff.”
“I don’t say things because I’m bitter. I say things everyone else is thinking but no one dares to say.”
“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.”
“I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.”
“People think that I’m unhappy but I’m not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.”
“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.”
“There is no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mum and look after my family.”
“I listen to a lot of jazz. I like the way the chords move and the way the music feels.”
“If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.”
“I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain things to and not others.”
“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
“I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything other than a musician.”
“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.”
“I write songs about things that I can’t really get past personally—and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”
“I write songs about stuff that I can’t really get past personally – and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”
“There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself, I can’t be helped.”
“There are certain romances that never get started.”
“When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”
“I don’t say things because I’m bitter. I say things because they’re true.”
“I write songs because I’m messed up in the head and need to put it on paper.”
“My greatest fear is probably dying with no one knowing of any contribution I’d ever made to creative music.”
“I’m pretty self-destructive.”
“I’m a jazz singer.”
“I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.”
“I’m much more comfortable in trousers and with a guitar than I am in front of a camera.”
“I don’t regret anything.”
“I’m not here to be famous. I’m just here to make music.”
“I love to live and I live to love.”
“I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything besides a musician.”
“I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl.”
“I never want to do anything mediocre.”
“I’m really not that interested in other people’s relationships.”
“I’m not Amy the star. I’m Amy the girl with the guitar.”
“I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though — not before a sambuca anyway.”
“I think that it’s up to the artist to decide where the line is.”
“I don’t want to do anything that’s going to make people think I’m trying to be sexy.”
“I don’t regret anything.”
READ MORE AUTHORS QUOTES:
“I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one else can help you.”
“I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.”
“I would like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship.”
“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes.”
- Amelia Earhart Quotes
- Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Alice Walker Quotes
- Alice Munro Quotes
- Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
“I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.”
“If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.”
“I’m happiest with my family around me.”
“I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man.”
“I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”