Liz Phair

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1967-04-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

840,951

Total plays

16,557,143

Elizabeth Clark Phair is an American singer-songwriter (b. April 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut). Phair was raised primarily in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, she attempted to start a musical career in San Francisco, California, but returned to her home in Chicago, where she began self-releasing audio cassettes under the name Girly-Sound. The tapes led to a recording contract with the independent record label Matador Records. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

2. Qualitative data analysis for applied policy research

   · cited 3,980x

3. Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

   · 2019 · cited 3,698x

4. What is an adequate sample size? Operationalising data saturation for theory-based interview studies

   · 2010 · cited 2,690x

5. Clopidogrel and Aspirin versus Aspirin Alone for the Prevention of Atherothrombotic Events

   · 2006 · cited 2,258x

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Quotes

• “That explains why I have this impulse to share, to be honest and unveil stuff – because that area was like: ‘No, you have to be perfect.’”
• “Men were the gatekeepers. They ran all the equipment and the labels … I was tired of being the girlfriend of the guy in the band, I was tired of hearing that my musical tastes suck.”
• “Intimacy—real honest intimacy—is one of the most radical things you can do right now. It’s like an endangered species to connect to your feelings and actually be present…”
• “…When I’m not working, I safeguard my time to go into a dream state and not have to think about the commercialization of my art or the commodification of myself...”
• “…It feels like I understand the male mind better than some people. This whole idea that men just want sex, I don’t think that’s true. I think they’re actually looking for intimacy. To them, sex equates to a moment when they can step out of their tough masculine mind and be in a really Technicolor vulnerability. I think that’s more what they’re craving…”

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