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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

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
Note
Notes
Least
Sometimes
Trying

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People are buying more vinyl now than they did in the late '90s or 2000s. I like having different mediums of the record. It's always interesting to see how the tapes end up looking because they are so tiny.
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I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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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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It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.
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Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.
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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 listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.
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I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.
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Different cultures have different audiences.
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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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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You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be. You realize that you need to like yourself.
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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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It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.
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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 don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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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.
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My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
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