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I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.

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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I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.
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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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Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.
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I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.
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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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I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.
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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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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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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 can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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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 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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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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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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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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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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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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Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.
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