Liz Phair Quotes

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.
Liz Phair

Live, Here, Road

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.
Liz Phair

Family, Rock, Done

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
Liz Phair

Love, Trying, Process

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.
Liz Phair

Important, Off, Track

Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.
Liz Phair

Her, She, Everybody

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.
Liz Phair

Write, Actually, Though

My career has been riddled with controversy, which I never fully understand.
Liz Phair

Career, Understand, Fully

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
Liz Phair

Everything, Whatever, Social

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.
Liz Phair

Long, Play, Guitar

No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.
Liz Phair

Best, Matter, Songs

Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
Liz Phair

Music, Different, Anyone

People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that.
Liz Phair

Game, Made, Playing

Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
Liz Phair

Care, Feelings, Done

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.
Liz Phair

End, Artist, Second

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.
Liz Phair

Music, Win, Play

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.
Liz Phair

Music, Done, Big

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
Liz Phair

Women, Nothing, Wrong

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
Liz Phair

Good, Perfection, Wearing

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.
Liz Phair

Music, Pretty, Listening

When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it!
Liz Phair

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
Liz Phair

Women, Experience, Order

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.
Liz Phair

Women, Everything, Used

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.
Liz Phair

Money, Art, Famous

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
Liz Phair

Courage, Artist

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.
Liz Phair

Life, Art, Become

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Nationality: American

Born: April 17, 1967

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