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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
Notes
Least
Sometimes
Trying
Note

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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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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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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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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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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 don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.
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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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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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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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I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these strangers that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.
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I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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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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My family life, my adoption - it could be related to the songs, but I think the songs are deeper than that. They're not just about this experience.
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If you can't be psyched about your own thoughts, then how are you supposed to have a meaningful interaction with anyone?
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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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I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.
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If, you know, all your life you're making films or whatever, and somehow along the way you lose meaning in whatever you're doing when you're making the films, they're just not the same as they used to be to you. That doesn't mean your life is over it just means maybe go try to live a different life.
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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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