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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.

Liz Phair

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Liz Phair
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
Ultimate
Away
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Feminist

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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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I love stretching myself musically.
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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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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
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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 don't know it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
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Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
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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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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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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
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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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I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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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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You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
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