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