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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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Music
Find
Mean
Make
Living

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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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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 can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
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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 can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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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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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 you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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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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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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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.
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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 a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
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Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
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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 love stretching myself musically.
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There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.
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