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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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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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Private
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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 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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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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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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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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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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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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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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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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All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.
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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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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 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 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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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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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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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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I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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