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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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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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Madonna
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Water

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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 am comfortable performing now. I love it!
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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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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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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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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 just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
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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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Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst
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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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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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You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
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Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
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And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!
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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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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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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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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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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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