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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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Feelings
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I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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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.
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Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.
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You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
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I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.
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I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.
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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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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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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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No. You know what really bugs me about my videos? When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times.
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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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Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.
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I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
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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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I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
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I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
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Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
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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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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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