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American singer-songwriter and guitarist, Birth: 17-4-1967 Liz Phair Quotes
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I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
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Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
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It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.
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Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.
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I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
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I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
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Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.
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Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.
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Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
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I just don't fit into the box.
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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.
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I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
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I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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I love stretching myself musically.
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I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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23.
I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
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My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
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28.
I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.
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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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30.
What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
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31.
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win
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I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
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There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.
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34.
I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.
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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
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I am just your ordinary, average every day sane psycho, supergoddess.
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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
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I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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43.
All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
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Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
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45.
I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.
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46.
Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
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47.
When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
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48.
Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.
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You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
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