Liz Phair Quotes

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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.

  Liz Phair

  Two, Unhappy, Trying

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• It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

  Liz Phair

  Nice, Paid

  Song: Shitloads of Money, Album: whitechocolatespaceegg

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• I am just your ordinary,
  average every day sane psycho,
  supergoddess.

  Liz Phair

  Average, Ordinary, Psycho

  Song: Extraordinary, Album: Liz Phair

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• I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones, bad ones, fat ones, thin ones, all of it - until the profound silence that has resounded throughout history is filled with a healthy chorus coming from our side of the aisle.

  Liz Phair

  Beautiful, Smart, Stupid

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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.

  Liz Phair

  Being Yourself, Feminist, Get Away

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just don't fit into the box.

  Liz Phair

  Fit, Boxes

  "Liz Phair Interview" by Melanie Haupt, www.austinchronicle.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

  Liz Phair

  Perfection, Veneer

  "Return to Guyville". Interview with Carlene Bauer, www.elle.com. June 10, 2008.

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• Isn't this the best part of breakin' up? Finding someone else you can't get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.

  Liz Phair

  Want, Enough, Finding Someone

  Song: Why Can't I?

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• I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

  Liz Phair

  Trying, Like You, Living My Life

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• I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

  Liz Phair

  Art, Pain, Mean

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• I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

  Liz Phair

  Long, People, Mind

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. July 1, 2008.

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• I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

  Liz Phair

  Xbox, Guy, Knows

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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.

  Liz Phair

  People, Attention, Body

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

  Liz Phair

  Artist, Order, Needs

  Interview with Melanie Haupt, www.austinchronicle.com. March 14, 2003.

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• I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.

  Liz Phair

  Art, Trying, Performances

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2003.

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• I don't know why it surprises people that I surprise them.

  Liz Phair

  People, Surprise, Knows

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• I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

  Liz Phair

  Benign, Rum, Knows

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• And, you know, I still haven't been contacted by Mick Jagger, either!

  Liz Phair

  Stills, Havens, Jagger

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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.

  Liz Phair

  Kids, Who I Am, Important

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• When you love what you do, you're happy just doing it.

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

  Liz Phair

  Artist, Needs

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• I am comfortable performing now. I love it!

  Liz Phair

  Performing, Comfortable

  "Liz Phair Talks Collaborating with A.R. Rahman for PEOPLE LIKE US, Taking on the Male Rock Establishment, Her New Album and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

  Liz Phair

  Kind, Nervous, Enjoy

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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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  Mean, Kind, Remember

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• I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.

  Liz Phair

  Brother, Cousin, Males

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