Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by Amy Winehouse
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
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 saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
I'm ugly.
Yeah, I'm an open book.
I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
I've got a crush on my backing singer.
I don't regret anything.
If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
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'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
I've had everything pierced at some point.
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 really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me.
I love food.
When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
Basically, I live to do gigs.
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.
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.
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 do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!
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 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.
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.
I look after people.
Women don't try to use me.
I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.
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've always been a little homemaker.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
I'm much healthier now.
I can express myself.
I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
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, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.
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.
My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.
If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
I'm such a kid at heart.
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.
I would say that jazz is my own language.
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'm not very ambitious at all.
I'm not a natural born performer.
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 always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
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 just like tattoos.
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.
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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