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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
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Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
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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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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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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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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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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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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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That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win
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Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.
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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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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 prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
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I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?
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Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
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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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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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