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