Liz Phair Quotes
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.
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No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.
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I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.
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Because each book has its own special perfume.
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Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
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I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
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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.
