Amy Winehouse
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Demographics
Gender Female
Birth Name Amy Jade Winehouse
Birthplace Enfield, Middlesex, England, U.K.
Birth Date September 14, 1983
Ethnicity Jewish
Overview Ashkenazi
Nationality British
Career Singer, songwriter
Color Season Dark Winter
Notes and Motifs
Pe popstar
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Winehouse: “Living is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.”
Winehouse: “There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.”
Winehouse: “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.”
Winehouse: “I’ve never understood though why people get so upset about things that don’t really matter.”
Winehouse: “I thought that everyone could sing. I never thought it was an odd thing, just that everybody in the world could sing and my mum was just unlucky. I didn’t realize that I had anything special, even when I was at stage school. I realized that I was a good singer but I thought I’d be a comedienne or an actress. I never thought I would make money out of music even though I knew it would always be the main focus of my life and the greatest joy. I still don’t think I have anything special, there’s a million girls like me – it’s just that I’ve been given a massive opportunity."
Winehouse: “I’m not very Jewish in a going-to-synagogue-regularly sort of a way, but I am what’s known in Hebrew as a ba’alabusta – somebody who can’t stopping fussing over other people.”
Winehouse: “I’m like my Nan in that anyone coming into my house has to be fed whether they’re hungry or not. I had my first day off yesterday in I don’t know how long, and ended up cooking breakfast for the boy, lunch for my dad and early dinner for my friends. In between that, I did the cleaning.”
Winehouse: “I don’t say things because I’m bitter. I say things everyone else is thinking but no one dares to say.”
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.”
Winehouse: “All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it's with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.”
Winehouse: “I love lyrics that twist things. When I write a song it’s usually because I’ve got to a point where I go ‘what am I going to do, I’m f*cked, I got to write a song’. I always try and put a kick into them because when I listen back to those songs when I’m sixty I don’t ever want to think that I was a depressed and fucked up seventeen year old. I want to think I handled it well, didn’t create too much of a drama. The songs that I love are when you expect one thing and they say the other. I love being surprised and I try and do that myself, flip things at the end."
Winehouse: “I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that usual. You know, a lot of people do.”
Winehouse: "Life is short and I have made a lot of mistakes, but everything in life happens for a reason"
Winehouse: “I was bored of complicated chord structures and needed something more direct. I’d been listening to a lot of girl-groups from the 50s and 60s. I liked the simplicity of that stuff. It just gets to the point. So I started thinking about writing songs in that way.”
Winehouse: “I'm not a very 'poor me' kind of person. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.”
Winehouse: “Music is something where I can be completely honest, and sometimes I don’t want to sing some of the songs ’cos they’re so raw.”
Winehouse: “I definitely want to have a family, which I have this notional idea of happening when I’ve done another three albums and can take time out to be with them when they’re young. There are a lot of good working musician mums who’ll disagree with me, but I don’t necessarily think you can do both.”
Winehouse: “I'm of the school of thought where if you can't sort something out for yourself then nobody can help you.”
Winehouse: “I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.”
Winehouse: “I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.”
Winehouse: “I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.”
Winehouse: “I can’t even work with someone unless they know more about music than me. I have to learn from them or it’s pointless.”
Winehouse: “Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.”
Winehouse: “If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.”
Winehouse: “I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.”
Winehouse: “I feel like I've come to the realization that life is short, you know? You have to live in the moment. You have to seize the day.”
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.”
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.”
Winehouse: “I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship...as someone who was a pioneer.”
Winehouse: “Success to me is not success to the record company or whoever. Success to me is having the freedom to work with whoever I want to work with.”
Winehouse: “At the end of the day, I don't have to answer to you, or my ex, or a man in a suit from the record company. I have to answer to myself.”
Winehouse: “Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.”
Winehouse: “If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.”
Winehouse: “I love America, it's a much more permissive place.”
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.”
Winehouse: “I don't ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I don't mean to be rude, but those people have no soul.”
[On criticism]
Winehouse: “They’ve every right to have a go at me, as I’ve every right to have a go at Bono.”
Winehouse: “My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.”