Top 939 Quotes & Sayings by Taylor Swift

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American singer Taylor Swift.
Last updated on September 10, 2024.
Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. Her discography spans multiple genres, and her narrative songwriting—often inspired by her personal life—has received critical praise and widespread media coverage. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 14 to pursue a career in country music. She signed a songwriting contract with Sony/ATV Music Publishing in 2004 and a recording deal with Big Machine Records in 2005, and released her eponymous debut studio album in 2006.

Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
I know my flaws before other people point them out to me. — © Taylor Swift
I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love. — © Taylor Swift
Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
There's room for role models who make mistakes.
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
Faith Hill is a big role model.
I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
My imagination is a twisted place.
You can't be in love with a Google search.
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years. — © Taylor Swift
All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to think that we're a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet.
I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love. — © Taylor Swift
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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.
When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
Love is the one wild card.
Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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