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. Liz Phair Read Quote
You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. Liz Phair Read Quote
Women artists need to break barriers in order for women’s experience to be valuable. Liz Phair Read Quote
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. Liz Phair Read Quote
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. Liz Phair Read Quote
Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different. Liz Phair Read Quote
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. Liz Phair Read Quote
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. Liz Phair Read Quote
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. Liz Phair Read Quote
