101+ Best Amy Winehouse Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Amy Jade Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter. She was known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Profoundly inspirational  Amy Winehouse quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Amy Winehouse Quotes

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

I don’t care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

I don’t regret anything. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m happiest with my family around me. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

A song marks an occasion in my life and that’s how I live my life, by songs. Amy Winehouse

I want at least five kids. I want twins. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

I’m ugly. Amy Winehouse

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

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

I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t. Amy Winehouse

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

I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t. Amy Winehouse

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable. Amy Winehouse

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

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave! Amy Winehouse

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

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

I’m such a kid at heart. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

I’m not a natural born performer. Amy Winehouse

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave! Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve had everything pierced at some point. 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

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

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen. Amy Winehouse

I would love to study guitar or trumpet. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

I look after people. Amy Winehouse

I’m happiest with my family around me. Amy Winehouse

I just like tattoos. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Basically, I live to do gigs. Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don’t even have a TV. Amy Winehouse

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

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you. Amy Winehouse

I’ve had everything pierced at some point. Amy Winehouse

Yeah, I’m an open book. Amy Winehouse