Maggie Rogers Quotes

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

When young people hear auto-tune, they think that's real R&B. You have to get rid of all of the gimmicks.

People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.

As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it's still human beings out here you can reach with music.

I just make the music and then the music speaks for itself.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.

I believe it's possible to have hit songs and popular music that's recorded by human beings.

We're all big fans of pop music; this is definitely the direction we've always wanted to head in.

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.

I've always wanted to write pop music. I never wanted to be cool or make a hipster record.

Even in the early stages, you can tell who thinks you're an idiot singing songs someone else has written for you. We never wanted to be two producers and a girl who wears some shoes.

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

Pop music is what touches me the most.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

I naturally make commercial music: it's never been a calculated decision to make pop music. I'm a genuine pop music fan.

I sing pop music that I like and that is completely unapologetic - which is actually the term: it's called 'unapologetic pop.

A lot of people make music to sell music. I don't just sell music. I am essentially, I guess the word I want to use is, it's like an energetic transaction.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

That's the thing: pop music has sometimes had a bad reputation for being about a lot of other stuff than the music. And I am just a lover of pop music. I love pop. I love big choruses. Dramatic choruses - they're the best thing in the world. And I do this because I love making music and performing the songs.

I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.