Maggie Rogers Quotes

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

I associate colors with music, or music with colors.

I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music, I think about gold, blood rushing... I like to keep it really warm and glittery.

I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.

I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.

I don't think there's any more synesthetic medium than film.

I have synesthesia, which is when you see music in color.

I don't have synesthesia, but I think when music is really intense, it's almost like it's more than just hearing. If you're at a gig, and there's just something amazing going on, it's not really just hearing: it's more of a total body sense, isn't it? You get transported, and all your senses kind of join up.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of colors in my head.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

The way it works for me is my sight and sound senses are combined. Every sound I associate with a color and every color I associate with a sound... The way I see things is constant streamers across the room, bouncing off from every touch and every sound. Over the years, I've learned what color palates I love most.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

I see songs in colors; I see days of the week. Each day of the week I relate to a gender, and it's very weird. I can taste words sometimes. It's very strange.

I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.