Angel Olsen Quotes

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• Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Firsts, Share

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Crazy, People, Ask Me

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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  Brain, Different, Might

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• It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

  Angel Olsen

  Important, Kind, Existence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  Trying, Why Not, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Writing, Mirrors, Talking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Mean, Trying, Different

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Blood, Stranger, Share

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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?

  Angel Olsen

  Meaningful, Interaction, Ifs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Thinking, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

  Angel Olsen

  Self, Different, Ready

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Care, Want, Honest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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!

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Writing, People

  Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. January 24, 2014.

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Expectations, Kind, Unfair

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. February 22, 2013.

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• It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

  Angel Olsen

  People, Weird Things, Knows

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Father

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Believe, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Angel Olsen

  People, Want, Common

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  People, Interesting, Different

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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• Different cultures have different audiences.

  Angel Olsen

  Different, Culture, Different Cultures

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Running, Home, Writing

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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• I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

  Angel Olsen

  Song, Breathe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  People, Grace, Lucky

  "Angel Olsen on Discovering Her Audience". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.elle.com. March 17, 2014.

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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.

  Angel Olsen

  Want, Unreal, Allowing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel really good about the future and working with people.

  Angel Olsen

  People, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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