Amy Winehouse
singer-songwriter, guitarist, jazz musician, jazz guitarist, musician, recording artist, singer, songwriter, composer
Read on Wikipedia1983 – 2011
All Quotes by Amy Winehouse
“I love food.”
“I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.”
“I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“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.”
“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”
“I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.”
“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 know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.”
“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.”
“Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.”
“I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.”
“My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.”
“I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.”
“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 love America, it's a much more permissive place.”
“When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.”
“I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.”
“I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.”
“I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.”
“I would say that jazz is my own language.”
“I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.”
“I love food.”
“Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.”
“I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.”
“The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.”
“Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.”
“I don't regret anything.”
“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.”
“There's no point in saying anything but the truth.”
“Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!”
“If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.”
“Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.”
“If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.”
“You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.”
“I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.”
“I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.”
“All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
“I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.”
“If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.”
“I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.”
“I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.”
“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.”
“Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.”
“I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.”
“I'm not a natural born performer.”
“I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.”
“I can be a cruel person.”
“I want at least five kids. I want twins.”
“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
“When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.”
“I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.”
“I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.”
“I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it's not where it begins and ends.”
“I've always been a little homemaker.”
“I don't even have a TV.”
“I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.”
“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 was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.”
“I look after people.”
“If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.”
“I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.”
“Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.”
“I just like tattoos.”
“Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.”
“I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.”
“I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.”
“To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.”
“I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.”
“My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.”
“I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.”
“I've got a crush on my backing singer.”
“I'm much healthier now.”
“I'm ugly.”
“I'm such a kid at heart.”
“Basically, I live to do gigs.”
“I'm very loyal.”
“Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.”
“I've had everything pierced at some point.”
“Women don't try to use me.”
“My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.”
“I'm not very ambitious at all.”
“Yeah, I'm an open book.”
“I would love to study guitar or trumpet.”
“I'm happiest with my family around me.”
“I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.”
“Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.”
“I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.”
“I can express myself.”