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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
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Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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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 have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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I love stretching myself musically.
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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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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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When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.
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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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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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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
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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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