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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.

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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Talk
Feelings
Care
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Endlessly

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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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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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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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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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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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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Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
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The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.
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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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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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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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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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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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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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I love stretching myself musically.
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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 would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
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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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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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