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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Once upon a time I was so restless in love When things were fine I changed my mind just because Now I see how wrong and reckless I've been Each frog has a prince Just waiting inside of him, ... Somebody's Miracle. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I just don't fit into the box. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No. You know what really bugs me about my videos When they can't figure out what to do, they just have me change clothes five times. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They're different, ... We record the live shows and it's very unprofessional at this point -- like, sometimes they sound good and sometimes they sound terrible but it's really fun. It's like having my own little radio show. I think it's great. We listen to all of the (National Public Radio) stuff on Sundays. It's kind of like having my own version. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I'm very different that was 12 years ago, ... I hate to think it's like I'm still going around saying f--- you. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now. - Liz Phair Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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