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I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
Composer
Guitarist
Music Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.
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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
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When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.
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I'd rather people interpret the songs and get whatever they can out of them instead of thinking about me crying in a room with a guitar.
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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
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I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
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There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
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You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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I enjoy singing the songs a certain way, but I don't even know how the writing even began. To me, it's work that is kind of invisible it's a weird kind of work to have because you're not working, but it's not not work. Formulating your thoughts and making a melody that's catchy enough for people to listen to what you're saying is really hard!
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In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.
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I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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