Maggie Rogers Quotes

Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

I usually sit around with the guitar in reach and grab it when I get an idea. Sometimes it lasts five minutes, and sometimes it lasts all day.

Every day you can write a song but some days there is just some magic in the air and something special about the catch; other days you write all day on a song line or idea.

I don't have any particular methodology, to tell you the truth. 'Silver Blue' took exactly the amount of time to write that it takes to sing it, and 'Prisoner in Disguise' took about a year and a half. So you just never know.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

My songs pretty much revolve in my brain most of the time - usually, whatever's coming next.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.