#out

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. ↗

— William Petty

#demonstration #hope #i #living #man

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#difficult #friends #guitar #had #i

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore. ↗

— Liz Phair

#anymore #chaos #give #hack #i

Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#always #been #chances #does #everything

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#came #guitar #her #herself #i

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#duck #howard #i #like #like a duck

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press. ↗

— Liz Phair

#amazed #came #everything #first #i

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. ↗

— Phaedrus

#brain #gilded #outward #show #splendid

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response. ↗

— Liz Phair

#certain #design #get #i #i think