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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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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'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
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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 can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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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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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
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I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
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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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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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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 love stretching myself musically.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.
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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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