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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
Liz Phair
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Liz Phair
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 17
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.
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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 can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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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 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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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