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People should know each other because they want to, because they have things in common.

Angel Olsen

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Angel Olsen
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: January 22
Composer
Guitarist
Music Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
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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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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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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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Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?
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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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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 wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
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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'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 know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.
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I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.
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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'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.
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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 just want to scream: I'm being honest, I swear! Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.
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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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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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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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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'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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