Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Phair
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Liz Phair.
Last updated on November 4, 2024.
You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.
I just don't fit into the box.
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.
Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
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.
I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife.
I'm working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally.
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.
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!
The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
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.
I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.
I am comfortable performing now. I love it!
After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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.
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.
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.
I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.
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.
I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.
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.
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.
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.
I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.
I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.
Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.
I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.
I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.
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.
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.
I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.
I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.
My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off.
It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.
I blend my green drink every morning. I also fix my son a full-on American breakfast with bacon and toast.
I have that thrill-seeking mentality, so when people want to know why my incarnations keep changing, or why I'll do something different than I did before, it's that same impulse.
There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.
I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.
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.
I'm known for being annoyingly gender-focused. It's always been my platform.
Everything that people lob at you who don't know you, it all hurts. When you're doing something as simple as making music, which really, theoretically, shouldn't hurt anyone - I mean, it's a song! Step back for five seconds and laugh.
I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.
I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.
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.
No matter how I do this, my best songs have profanity in them.
I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
Everyone wants to get into soundtracks. Everyone wants to do songs here and there. But, I think they want it for different reasons. I think I'm just tumbling through my life, enjoying playing with everybody.
I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
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.
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.
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.
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.
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