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Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

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
Madonna
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Skis

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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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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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I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
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When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.
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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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I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
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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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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 just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
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I love stretching myself musically.
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I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
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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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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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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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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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