Sharon Van Etten Quotes

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Sharon Van Etten

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 26, 1981

Brit Marling is very positive, very professional, very encouraging.

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I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.

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I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

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I definitely wouldn't consider myself a professional, but I like to dress up like one.

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I think leading up to the tour is the most stressful part because you barely have any time home.

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I used to work at a label. I used to be a publicist. I used to be at a management company.

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I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas.

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I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

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Whatever your writing is about, you're really connected with it, and you can always go back to when that was. I remember everything, and time and place are like a center for me.

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I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day.

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People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

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I don't know how to get a crowd singing along. That's not what my music does.

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In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

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Sometimes music should just be about you sitting on your bedroom floor, or in the back of the car, singing along stupidly. Evan Dando's music was all about that for me.

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Noveller make soundscapes that are creepy, ethereal, really beautiful and all over the place. They can be intense, dark, and groovy but also dreamlike and happy.

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I hit 'record' whenever I'm going through a really hard time. I don't listen to it for a couple of days, so I have some perspective. If it's too personal to share, and I feel like would alienate the listeners, then I usually don't share that stuff.

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Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal.

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I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again.

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I moved to New York to pursue music.

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