Author Profile
Liz Phair
1967 • American • Musician
60
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Showing 60 quotesI 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.— Liz Phair
I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have.— Liz Phair
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.— Liz Phair
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
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.— Liz Phair
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.— Liz Phair
It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.— Liz Phair
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.— Liz Phair
After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.— Liz Phair
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
I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that.— Liz Phair