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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

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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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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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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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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I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.
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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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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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You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
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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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Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.
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I don't know it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
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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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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 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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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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 prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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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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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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