Liz Phair Quotes

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Liz Phair

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 17, 1967

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 don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

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I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

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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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So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.

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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

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

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I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.

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I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.

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I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

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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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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

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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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I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.

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It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

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I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.

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

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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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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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