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Amy Winehouse

1983 – 2011

Winehouse’s most legendary work is her multi-platinum 2006 sophomore album, Back to Black, which won five Grammy Awards in a single night and featured massive global hits like “Rehab” and “You Know I’m No Good”. Her critically acclaimed 2003 debut album, Frank, also stands as a notable achievement, introducing the music world to her mature songwriting and earning her a prestigious Ivor Novello Award. Her distinctive, chart-topping cover of the song “Valerie” with producer Mark Ronson remains an enduring cultural anthem.

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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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

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Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

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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.

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I’m not very ambitious at all.

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I don’t ever wanna drink again, I just, ooh I just need a friend.

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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.

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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.

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About Amy Winehouse

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Amy Winehouse was a phenomenally talented British singer and songwriter celebrated for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her signature mix of soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz. Flaunting a bold, iconic 1960s beehive hairstyle and winged eyeliner, she became one of the most influential musical forces of the 2000s. Tragically, her immense artistic brilliance was cut short when she passed away at the age of 27, leaving behind a profound legacy that completely reshaped the landscape of modern pop and soul music.

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