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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
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Madonna
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Water

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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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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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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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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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I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.
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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 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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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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What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?
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I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
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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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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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You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.
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I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!
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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 think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.
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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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That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.
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I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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