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