Top 100 Amy Winehouse Quotes
#1. I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
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#2. I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
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#3. I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
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#4. I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
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#5. Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
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#6. Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
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#7. I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.
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#8. Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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#10. I only write about stuff that's happened to me.. stuff I can't get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
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#11. I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.
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#12. I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
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#13. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
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#14. I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
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#16. I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Emulate all the shit my mother hates, I can't help but demonstrate my freudian fate
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#19. I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led.
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#21. People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.
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#23. 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.
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#24. The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
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#25. I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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#26. At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
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#27. Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
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#28. I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.
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#29. Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
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#30. 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.
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#31. I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.
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#32. I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
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#33. 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.
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#34. And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
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#35. Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend
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#39. If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
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#40. I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.
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#41. I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.
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#42. 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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#43. 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.
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#44. I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
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#45. Feel so fucking angry; don't want to be reminded of you, But when I left my shit in your kitchen, I said goodbye to your bedroom it smelled of you
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#46. You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.
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#48. I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.
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#49. My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
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#50. When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking ... Can we be alone?
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#51. I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.
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#52. 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.
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#53. The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.
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#54. My dad always had music playing around us and he was always a happy chirpy man with a beautiful voice. I was always singing around the house and I assumed that's what all families did. It wasn't until I went through that nasty teenage stage that I started to realise that wasn't the case.
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#56. There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I wanted to be Snoopy's girlfriend and when I got older I wanted to be Bart Simpson's girlfriend. Then I couldn't decide whether I wanted marry Snoopy or Michael Jackson - because he was God to me - or to just be them.
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#61. My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.
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#62. I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.
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#64. I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
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#65. I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
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#67. Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.
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#68. Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
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#69. I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
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#70. His face in my dreams,
seizing my guts,
he floods me with dread.
Soaked in soul,
he swims in my eyes
by the bed.
Pour myself over him,
moon spilling in
And I wake up alone.
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#71. When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
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#73. 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.
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#74. I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.
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#75. I love America, it's a much more permissive place.
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#76. I like stylish men although I'm someone who sees a man who's not dressed right and think what I could do with him to make him cute. I'm a typical Jewish woman like that.
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#77. 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.
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#78. A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.
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#79. I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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#81. People think stage school is a little star factory but the truth is kids like me learned about being in a team situation and going out to work earlier than a lot of kids did. I don't know anyone from drama school who's now sitting on their arse doing nothing.
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#82. If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.
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#83. I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
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#84. I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.
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#87. I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
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#90. I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
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#91. I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
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#93. Relationship doesn't remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
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#94. Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
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#95. 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.
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#96. We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black ...
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#97. I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
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#98. I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.
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#99. If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
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#100. 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.
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