176 Quotes by Liz Phair

When it’s me in my living room, it’s pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.

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!

I’d like to do a tour with a bunch of people where it’s just them and their guitars. It would be like Lilith Fair – only everyone plays alone, and it would be competitive.

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.

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.

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion – as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character’s point of view is driving it at any given moment?

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

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.

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.