Taylor Alison Swift
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Recognized for her songwriting, musical versatility, artistic reinventions, and influence on the music industry, she is a prominent cultural figure of the 21st century. (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.”
“Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.”
“Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.”
“Apologizing when you have hurt someone who really matters to you takes nothing away from you.”
“As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‘All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,’ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.”
“As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.”
“At some point, you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.”
“Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they’re great people.”
“Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you’re grateful for.”
“Be yourself and the right people will love you.”
“Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I’m so excited by it.”
“Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.”
“Don’t make High School everything. Because if high school is everything, you’ve got a long life to live. And…I like to think that the best years of my life are still ahead of me.”
“Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.” (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.”
“Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.”
“Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it’s all about focusing on the good things.”
“Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.”
“Fearless is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them.”
“Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life – you need to live it on your terms for a while.”
“For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.”
“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.”
“Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”
“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”
“Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.”
“I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.”
“I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.”
“I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.”
“I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.”
“I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.”
“I don’t know if you know who you are until you lose who you are.”
“I don’t think there’s such a thing as falling in love too easily or falling too fast. Or loving someone too soon or trusting someone too soon… I’ve never treated two relationships the same. Some people move you and some people don’t.” (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“I don’t think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.”
“I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”
“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That’s why I tend not to wear heels.”
“I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.”
“I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.”
“I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.”
“I keep one eye on the path I didn’t choose every day.”
“I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.”
“I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.”
“I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.”
“I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.”
“I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‘Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.”
“I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.”
“I think it’s important that you know that I will never change. But I’ll never stay the same either.”
“I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.”
“I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.”
“I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.”
“I think that you can love people without it being the great love.”
“I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.”
“I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.”
“I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‘Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.”
“I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.”
“I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.”
“I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.”
“I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.”
“I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”
“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”
“I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.” (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“I’m thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.”
“I’m the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.”
“I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.”
“I’ve never felt like there’s just one way to be beautiful.”
“I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.”
“If I could go back I wouldn’t change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn’t have ever tried to do anything different. I would have never become happy.”
“If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.”
“If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.”
“If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.”
“If you have something about yourself that’s different, you’re lucky. It’s not a curse.”
“If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with … it’s just kind of ridiculous.”
“If you write, you can turn your lessons into your legacy.”
“If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change.”
“In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”
“In life you learn lessons. Sometimes you learn them the hard way and sometime you learn them too late.”
“In real life saying the right thing at the right moment is crucial. So crucial that we begin to hesitate because we’re afraid of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately, what I’ve begun to fear more than that, is letting moment pass without saying anything. I think you deserve to look back on your life without the resounding voices saying, ‘I wish I could of but it’s too late now.’ I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”
“In school if you’re different that’s uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am…because…you know…I don’t really want to change it.”
“In the real world, if you have something that makes you different. Your lucky.”
“It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.”
“It’s important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.”
“It’s kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”
“It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.”
“Just be yourself. There is no one better.”
“Life is like walking — you take one step at a time.”
“Life isn’t how to survive the storm, it’s about how to dance in the rain.”
“Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I’ve learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself, and sing your thoughts. I think I’m the only one that does that.”
“Lost your balance on a tightrope. It’s never too late to get it back.”
“Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.”
“Make the most of now before it all changes because one day right now is going to be a memory.”
“Most of my songs have names of people I’ve met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.”
“My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It’s not just 15-year-old girls. That’s kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.”
“My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.”
“My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.”
“My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. That’s just a phase I’ve been in lately. I don’t think this should be how I proceed in life. It’s important to be self-aware about these things because you don’t want to end up with that guy.”
“My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”
“My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.” (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.”
“Never believe anyone who says you don’t deserve what you want”
“No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.”
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”
“No one has the right to criticize you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I’ve learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren’t invited there by you. So please do me this one favor: Don’t let their ugly words into your beautiful mind.”
“Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.”
“One element of Madonna’s career that really takes center stage is how many times she’s reinvented herself. It’s easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It’s inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”
“One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.”
“Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real—because it lasted.”
“People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”
“People haven’t always been there for me but music always has.”
“Say it to them. Or say it to yourself in the mirror. Say it in a letter you’ll never send or in a book millions might read someday. I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying ‘I could’ve, but it’s too late now.”
“Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.”
“So don’t you worry your pretty little mind, because people throw rocks at things that shine.”
“Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.”
“The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.”
“The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you’ll put on in your car or you’ll dance to it. But I think a great song you’ll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.”
“The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now.”
“The longer you’re with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.”
“The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”
“The only words you’ll regret more than the ones you left unsaid, are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
“The rest of the world was black and white, but we were in screaming color.”
“The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.”
“The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change.”
“There are two different categories of love. The first category is called a fairytale. The second category of love is called just another lesson.”
“There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you’ll know it. I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.” (Taylor Swift Quotes)
“There’s a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.”
“There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.”
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
“To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.”
“We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”
“We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach.”
“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
“We were built to fall apart and fall back together.”
“What I’ve learned is not to change who you are, because eventually, you’re going to run out of new things to become.”
“When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.”
“When I listen to a song, I don’t say, ‘Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.’ I’m thinking, ‘That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.”
“When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.”
“When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‘Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.”
“When I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.”
“When the lights go on there is this overwhelming joy that comes over me. And when I hear people scream…well that’s my favorite sound in the world. That can motivate me to do anything.”
“When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.”
“When you feel like you’re the only person in the world feeling this way, you’re not.”
“When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.”
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.”
“You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.”
“You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.”
“You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not—you can become unhinged so easily.”
“You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.”
“You can stay the same person you’ve always been even if everything around you changes.”
“You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.”
“You need to be happy with yourself or you’ll never be able to be happy in a relationship.”
“You start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you…don’t try to hide it. I don’t try to blend in anymore, it’s all about standing out.”
“You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.”
“Your success, your life, your happiness. Don’t let mean people bring that down.”
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