Amy Winehouse Quotes

It's not been a pleasant life.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Detroit was a bad situation for me.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that's a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

2016 was really challenging for me. I don't know what it was.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

I've had really hard struggles in my life.

I think once I had lived life, once I had failed enough in this lifetime and got back up a thousand times from failing, I really connected to the blues.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Life is full of hardships, pimp slaps, and sorrow.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Those people don't know how tough that really was.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.