Amy Winehouse famous quotes

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

#Anger #Fighting #Thinking

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black...
-- Amy Winehouse

#Goodbye #Black #Hundred

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

#Thinking #Doe #Sitting

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Song #Together #Stuff

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Sweet #Love Is #Hip Hop

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

#Song #Writing #Feel Better

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Upset #Life Happens

I don't ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend
-- Amy Winehouse

#Needs #Drink #Friend In Need

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Trouble

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Writing #Challenges #Writing Music

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

#Falling In Love #Heart #Shoes

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Song #Girlfriend #Writing

And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Self Worth #Self #Lasts

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
-- Amy Winehouse

#Broken Heart #Stress #Men

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

#Kings #Writing #Stuff

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Home #Car #Stills

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

#Girl #Boys #Pin Up

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Stars #Believe #Artist

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Girl #Would Be #Happy Girl

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Girl #Eye #Men

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Thinking #Special #Able

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#School #Blow #Thinking

Over futile odds, and laughed at by the gods And now the final frame. Love is a losing game.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Love Is #Odds #Games

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Needs #Helping #Need Help

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

#Goodbye #Love You #Kissing

If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Nice #Writing

I'm not a natural born performer.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Natural #Born #Performers

I've had everything pierced at some point.
-- Amy Winehouse

I think that we have to be aware that people are allowed to make mistakes
-- Amy Winehouse

#Mistake #Thinking #People

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Running #Dark

I would say that jazz is my own language.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Jazz #Language

I've got a crush on my backing singer.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Crush #Singers

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.
-- Amy Winehouse

#America

I don't have emotional needs, only physical ones.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Emotional #Needs

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take...
-- Amy Winehouse

#Giving #Music Is

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Singing #Heartbeat #Heard

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Thinking #Needs #Amazing Person

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Class #Lucky #Firsts

Yes, I'm still going to misbehave!
-- Amy Winehouse

#Stills

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Girl #Kind

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Song #White #Stories

I'm much healthier now.
-- Amy Winehouse

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

#Home #My Boyfriend #Littles

I'm not very ambitious at all.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Ambitious

I'm happiest with my family around me.
-- Amy Winehouse

#My Family

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Girl #Thinking #Worst

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Vulnerable #Frightened

Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Taken #Clouds #Black

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
-- Amy Winehouse

#People #Skins #Energy

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Couple #Book

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Music #Guitar #Study

Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Musician #Causes #Posing

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Stopping #Nervous #Starting

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Falling In Love #People #Situation

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Men #Thinking #Bunnies

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

#Kids #Thinking #Adults

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Kids #People #Magic

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

#School #People #Rehab

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Listening To Music #Angry

At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day
-- Amy Winehouse

#Age #Used #Collections

I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Writing #Said #Wanted

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Girl #Stupid #Bad Ass

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Play #Singers #Instruments

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Saws

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Thinking #Giving #Drug

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

#Drinking #Thinking #Years

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Mom #Mother #Wife

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

#Growing Up #House #Grows

There's no point in saying anything but the truth.
-- Amy Winehouse

Basically, I live to do gigs.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Gigs

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Play #Different #Instruments

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
-- Amy Winehouse

#People #Suffering #Unusual

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Lying #Eye #Dark

I love to live and I live to love.
-- Amy Winehouse

Sisters come before carpet burns and blisters.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Blisters #Carpet

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Death #Husband #My Husband

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.
-- Amy Winehouse

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Karma #Believe #Fate

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Helping #Help Yourself

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

#Queens #Philosophy #Drama

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

#Drinking #Wine #Glasses

I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Mean #People #Rude

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Life Is #Strive #Given

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Song #Waiting #Situation

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Tattoo #Ambitious #Planning

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

#Writing #Past #Self

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.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Rose #Cynical #Want

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

#Memories #Husband #Way

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

#Sorry #Men #Black

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Writing #Young #Young Women

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
-- Amy Winehouse

#Cutting #Men #Flames

Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Causes #Teach