Amy

Life teaches you how to live it -- if you can live long enough. 

This is what Tony Bennett says at the end of Amy, the documentary about Amy Winehouse produced in 2015. I've been watching and reading about the movie over the last few days, in reverse order. It's a beautiful film. 

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I don't have anything to add to that sentiment. I just think Bennett's insight should be postered everywhere. Once more:

Life teaches you how to live it -- if you can live long enough. 

Amy couldn't live long enough. She seemed to try, though. 

Bennett believes her voice was in league with Ella Fitzgerald and Etta James. And he would have told her, had she lived, to slow down. He would have told her

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Life teaches you how to live it -- if you can live long enough. 

Maybe a slow pace helps. 


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