Liz Phair Quotes

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

Your limitations create your sound.

Make your own music. It can be done.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

Music should not be a contest, it should be an individual thing that each band is putting out from within themselves.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.

We stand for musical individuality. That's all we stand for.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

My style is all to myself.

I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

I got tired of depending on other people, and I had this strong desire to make music of my own. I decided to start writing my own tunes and just see what could happen.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.