Amy Winehouse is praised for her distinctive vocals, and for bringing jazz and blue-eyed soul back into the mainstream. In a 2004 Fender interview, however, she asserted how instrumental her guitar skills were when it came to her songwriting and stage presence at this stage of her career.
"While I'm not even probably an adequate guitarist, I'm still a distinctive guitarist. I sound different," she said. "To me, the guitar is a really warm instrument, that's why I love it, as opposed to the piano. A wicked solo, to me, is not what being a guitarist is about. It's more so I can be all over everything, so I can feel something and just be able to go, 'this is what this feels like.'"
