Top 80 Liz Phair Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t know what the future holds. Anything is possible.”

— Liz Phair

2. “I just don’t fit into the box.”

— Liz Phair

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

— Liz Phair

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

— Liz Phair

5. “I can feel it in my bones: I’m gonna spend my whole life alone.”

— Liz Phair

6. “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...”

— Liz Phair

7. “Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.”

— Liz Phair

8. “Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst.”

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9. “Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.”

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10. “Women deserve respect, independence, and equality, period. We’re not carpetbaggers piggybacking on the civilization you created. You made skyscrapers and bridges and rockets? Well, we made you.”

— Liz Phair

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

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12. “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.”

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13. “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.”

— Liz Phair

14. “I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious.”

— Liz Phair

15. “I don’t mind people not liking me as long as there’s mutual respect.”

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16. “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.”

— Liz Phair

17. “I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time.”

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18. “I don’t think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.”

— Liz Phair

19. “Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.”

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20. “I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.”

— Liz Phair

21. “I’m really happy to be a mom, and I’m proud of the phase I’m in.”

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22. “I try to see interviewing as performance art, and just take it as it comes.”

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23. “Women artists need to break barriers in order for women’s experience to be valuable.”

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24. “I prance around and dance by myself to hip-hop songs in the mirror.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “Music is sound. It’s a wave. It’s going out and coming back, and it’s bouncing off.”

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27. “I don’t always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with my life!”

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28. “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

29. “When you love what you do, you’re happy just doing it.”

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30. “Women’s bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people’s attention, and advertisers aren’t going to stop using something that works.”

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31. “I don’t have the same access or time to gain access to music the way I used to.”

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32. “All parents gush about what it’s like to be a parent. I love it.”

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33. “I love stretching myself musically.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “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.”

— Liz Phair

36. “I’m very cerebral. I like to think things through.”

— Liz Phair

37. “I prefer to be reclusive and private about my creation and then, once I’m finished, present it to people.”

— Liz Phair

38. “What does it mean when something changes how it’s always been?”

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39. “I don’t know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.”

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40. “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.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I’m coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.”

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43. “It’s easier to believe in limitations than it is to take responsibility for your fate.”

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44. “I 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

45. “Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different.”

— Liz Phair

46. “It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here’s your CD that’s going into stores, here’s your EP that you offer online, here’s a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here’s your live stuff streaming.”

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47. “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.”

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48. “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

49. “You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.”

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50. “I am comfortable performing now. I love it!”

— Liz Phair