Liz Phair Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
-
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
-
I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
-
I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
-
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
-
My first album was completed in three months.
-
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
-
I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
-
To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
-
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
-
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
-
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
-
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
-
People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
-
I love the produce section at the grocery store.
-
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
-
In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
-
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
-
My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
-
More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
-
I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.
-
I'm not afraid of death.
-
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.
