“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’m not Amy the star. I’m Amy the girl with the guitar.”
“I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything besides a musician.”
“I don’t regret anything.”
“I don’t know if it’s embarrassing, but I find myself getting awfully turned on by myself.”
“I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself, I can’t be helped.”
“I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes.”
“If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.”
“I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.”
“I would like to be remembered as someone who wasn’t satisfied with just one level of musicianship.”
“I would say that jazz is my own language.”
“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 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 don’t regret anything.”
“I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself, no one else can help you.”
“I’m really happy with the way my life is.”
“I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.”
“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.”
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“I’m a jazz singer.”
“I think I’m just jazz, you know, everything at once. It’s a little bit old, a little bit new.”
“I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“There are certain romances that never get started.”
“I’m happiest with my family around me.”
“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 think that it’s up to the artist to decide where the line is.”
“I’m quite an insecure person. I’m very insecure about myself and how I come across.”
“I’m pretty self-destructive.”
“I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything other than a musician.”
“I don’t ever want to do anything to make me embarrassed in front of myself.”
“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 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 can’t help you if you don’t let me help you.”
“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”
“I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.”
“I think we have to be who we are. Don’t try to be anyone else.”
“I don’t care about all that pop stuff.”
“I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain things to and not others.”
“I’m really not that interested in other people’s relationships.”
“I’m not here to be famous. I’m just here to make music.”
“I don’t say things because I’m bitter. I say things everyone else is thinking but no one dares to say.”
“My greatest fear is probably dying with no one knowing of any contribution I’d ever made to creative music.”
“I’m much more comfortable in trousers and with a guitar than I am in front of a camera.”
“I love to live and I live to love.”
“I don’t want to do anything that’s going to make people think I’m trying to be sexy.”
“I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man.”
“I can’t help but demonstrate my emotions. I have to be an actress to hide my feelings.”
“I write songs because I’m messed up in the head and need to put it on paper.”
“I never want to do anything mediocre.”
“When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”
“I’m of the school of thought where, if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.”
“I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl.”
“I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.”
“People think that I’m unhappy but I’m not. I just appreciate silence in a world that never stops talking.”
“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.”
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- Ambrose Bierce Quotes
- Alice Walker Quotes
- Alice Munro Quotes
- Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
“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.”
“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.”
“There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“I’m not in this to make money. I’m not in this to be a star.”
“I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre. I always want it to be excellent.”
“I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.”
“There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“There is no point in saying anything but the truth.”
Amy Winehouse Quotes :
“I don’t ever want to do anything mediocre.”
“I believe you only get to be in real love once.”
“I don’t say things because I’m bitter. I say things because they’re true.”