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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.

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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Art
Money
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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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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
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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 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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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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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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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I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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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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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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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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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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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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I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.
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What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
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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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All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
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