Quotes by Liz Phair

About Liz Phair:

Elizabeth Clark "Liz" Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
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I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

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The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

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I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

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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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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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You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

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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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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

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No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.

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It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuf...

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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

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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 ori...

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I just don't fit into the box.

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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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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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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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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.

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I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.

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My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.

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Author Bio

  • NameLiz Phair
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornApril 17, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Musician; Guitarist; Composer