Quote

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.

Liz Phair

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Liz Phair
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
Something
Stop
Grabs
People
Attention
Advertisers
Used
Bodies
Women
Sell
Anything
Sells
Body
Using
Everything
Aren
Going
Works

More quotes by Liz Phair

Image
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
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
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
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
Liz Phair
Image
I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
Liz Phair
Image
What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
Liz Phair
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
Liz Phair
Image
I love stretching myself musically.
Liz Phair
Image
All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
Liz Phair
Image
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
Liz Phair
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
Liz Phair
Image
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.
Liz Phair
Image
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
Image
Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.
Liz Phair
Image
You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
Liz Phair
Image
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.
Liz Phair