Top 100 Winehouse Quotes
#1. People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
Emmy Rossum
#2. I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
Amy Winehouse
#3. I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
Amy Winehouse
#4. I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
Amy Winehouse
#5. I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
Amy Winehouse
#6. I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
Amy Winehouse
#8. Even if you're only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up's on and their eyes are popping - just ask Amy Winehouse!
Beth Ditto
#9. It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.
Jeff Beck
#10. Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
Amy Winehouse
#11. It was precisely because her songs were dragged up out of her soul that they were so powerful and passionate. The ones that went into "Back to Black" were about the deepest emotions. And she went through hell to make it.
Mitch Winehouse
#12. Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
Amy Winehouse
#13. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
Amy Winehouse
#14. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#15. Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Amy Winehouse
#17. I only write about stuff that's happened to me.. stuff I can't get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
Amy Winehouse
#18. I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse.
Lady Gaga
#19. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#20. Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.
Russell Brand
#22. 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
Amy Winehouse
#23. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#24. I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think it's cool that people see me as so many different artistes but I think I'm a little different, yeah.
Pixie Lott
#25. I want to collaborate with Amy [Winehouse] because she's really hot and cool right now. I know one song Rehab was very popular particularly because a lot of young people are in rehab as well. In fact I'm thinking about going. It looks like loads of fun and I know my career will benefit from it.
Sheryl Crow
#26. It's more likely I'll dye my hair green, get a bunch of tattoos and go on tour with Amy Winehouse.
Mike Huckabee
#27. Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
Alessia Cara
#28. Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
Amy Winehouse
#29. I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
Amy Winehouse
#31. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#32. A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.
Amy Winehouse
#33. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#34. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#35. Emulate all the shit my mother hates, I can't help but demonstrate my freudian fate
Amy Winehouse
#36. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#38. Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.
Jonah Goldberg
#39. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#40. I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.
Katy Perry
#42. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#43. The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
Amy Winehouse
#44. I don't need help because if I can't help myself I can't be helped.
Amy Winehouse
#45. I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.
Amy Winehouse
#46. It's too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn't got white wine in it. Has it?
Amy Winehouse
#47. At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
Amy Winehouse
#48. Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
Amy Winehouse
#49. I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
Amy Winehouse
#50. When I was a little kid it was my dream to go to drama school, but it was never something I thought would happen to me. I was a Jewish girl from North London and things like that don't happen to Jewish girls from North London called Amy Winehouse.
Amy Winehouse
#51. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#52. Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
Amy Winehouse
#53. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#54. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#55. I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Amy Winehouse
#56. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#57. And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
Amy Winehouse
#58. Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take ...
Amy Winehouse
#60. Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
Amy Winehouse
#61. I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't.
Amy Winehouse
#63. I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.
Amy Winehouse
#64. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#65. There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
Amy Winehouse
#66. I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend
Amy Winehouse
#67. If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
Amy Winehouse
#68. I'm not Amy the star, I'm Amy the girl with the guitar.
Amy Winehouse
#69. I made an album I'm very proud of, and that's about it.
Amy Winehouse
#70. Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense
I just don't know you
But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye
I think I love you
Amy Winehouse
#71. Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.
Amy Winehouse
#72. No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.
Amy Winehouse
#73. You know, that was the first time [with Any Winehouse] that I probably ever used a baritone sax. And it's certainly the texture that, you know - it's all over the record 'cause it's a nice compliment to her tone.
Mark Ronson
#74. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#75. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#76. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#77. I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
Amy Winehouse
#78. 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
Amy Winehouse
#79. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#80. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#82. There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.
Amy Winehouse
#84. It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.
Amy Winehouse
#85. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#87. My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.
Amy Winehouse
#88. 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?
Amy Winehouse
#89. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#90. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#91. Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
Jools Holland
#92. The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC.
Amy Winehouse
#93. Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
Adam Pally
#94. Basically, there's a good friend of mine who works at EMI Publishing, a publishing company. He had asked me - he was like, you know, do you know this girl, Amy Winehouse? She's in New York for a day. She's kind of meeting people to maybe work with on her second album.
Mark Ronson
#95. 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.
Amy Winehouse
#97. There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.
Amy Winehouse
#98. I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.
Amy Winehouse
#99. Amy Winehouse's mother wrote an open letter to the News of the World newspaper telling Amy she's worried about her and to please call her. I doubt this is the best way to communicate with Amy - she should try spelling it out in lines of cocaine.
Chelsea Handler
#100. I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
Amy Winehouse
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