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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.

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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Music
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Ever
Greatly
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Seven
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Singing
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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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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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I've been writing a lot of songs in twos, songs that are like twins in my mind.
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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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In the music industry, it's pretty easy to make an album just because you want to keep going, like, 'This is the formula.' But the formula is your life. You have to live your life and you have to live it well - that's the formula.
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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 don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.
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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.
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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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A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
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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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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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In high school I was in a band called Goodfight, but it was more me running around on stage. It was very punk inspired. Then I started to get into indie-rock and older music and decided I wanted to write my own stuff. I quit the band. Around 16 or 17, I started recording myself at home on keyboard and piano.
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I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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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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It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.
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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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