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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.

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
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I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.
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Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.
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I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
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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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