Liz Phair Quotes

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Liz Phair

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 17, 1967

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

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I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

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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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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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I just don't fit into the box.

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I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

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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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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

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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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The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue.

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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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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.

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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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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 stuff streaming.

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I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

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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 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 mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

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