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I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

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Liz Phair
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
New Haven
Connecticut
Elizabeth Clark Phair
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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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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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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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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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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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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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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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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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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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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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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 can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
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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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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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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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