“Amy” quotes

“I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably go mad, do you know what I mean?”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse

“I think the more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes. So leave me alone and I'll do it.”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse

“I'm a big jazz fan and I really liked what she was doing. I thought it was unique, I thought it was edgy. And sincere.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

“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.”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse

“This is so boring without drugs.”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse

“If she had lived, I would have said: slow down; you're too important... Life teaches you, really how to live it... if you could live long enough.”

Tony Bennett - Tony Bennett

“That's the thing I like most about Amy. She didn't have any airs. She was real... She was just a charming, sweet lady.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

“It's like she needed music, as if it was a person, and that she would die for it.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

I realized early on, when Amy made her mind up, she made her mind up, and I found it difficult to stand up to her. She would say, "Oh, Mum, you're so soft with me. I can get away with murder. You should be tougher, Mum."

Janis Winehouse - Janis Winehouse

“My mum had her children, was bringing them up single-handedly because when my dad was there, he was never there. He was just never there, like for the important bits.”
Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

“She was a very old soul in a very young body.”

Nick Gatfield - Nick Gatfield

And she said "Boy, I can sing!" I said, "Damn right you can sing!". She said, "If I could give that back, just to walk down the street with no hassle, I would."

Andrew Morris - Andrew Morris