Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Phair - Page 2

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.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

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

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

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

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

I love stretching myself musically.

It makes sense - you wanna gather a lot of people together, and Vegas really does that well. New York can, but you know the hassles. I've lived there. It's an entirely different beast.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

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

I don't have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

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.

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.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

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.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

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

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

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.

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

I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

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

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

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.

When I was young, I used to need other people's albums and I got very involved with their music and it meant a lot to me.

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

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.

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.

I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I'm finished, present it to people.

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.

I'd like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it's just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair - only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

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.

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

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.

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 can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.

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