Taylor Swift Quotes

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

I don't have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don't have any interest in being drunk.

That moment when you buy scissors and then you try to open them but you can`t because you DON`T HAVE SCISSORS

Make the most of now before it all changes
because one day right now is going to be a
memory.

You'll be mine and I'll be yours.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

I need that unexplainable spark. I need to see someone and feel 'oh-oh'. It's only happened a few times in my life.

The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.

The worst possible way a relationship can end is when somebody cheats on somebody else.

Sometimes in love it just gets to the point where I have to give up. I have to give up trying and I have to give up believing because I know things won't change. To me, giving up isn't being weak. Giving up is being strong enough to let go.

You can't be in love with a Google search.

Is this the end of all the endings?
My broken bones are mending
With all these nights we're spending
Up on the roof with a school girl crush
Drinking beer out of plastic cups
You say you fancy me not fancy stuff.
All at once this is enough.

And for me, I guess the person who I tell everything that I'm going through is you. The fans.

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.

You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn't date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

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 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.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our friendship never ends.
I may not be the most important person in your life but I just hope that when you hear my name you smile and say that's my friend!!!

You're going to have people who are going to say 'Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends' and I think frankly that's a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.

You have celebrities who are pushed to the brink of a public meltdown, and so the public thinks that every person in the public eye has dirty secrets that they're keeping, or isn't what they seem, or is masking it and faking sincerity, faking authenticity, faking being surprised at award shows when you win a Grammy.

Who you are is not where you've been ...
You're still an innocent.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

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.

I took a chance, I took a shot
And you may think I'm bullet-proof, but I'm not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

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.

When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know.

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are talked about, the kind of things we say are, 'Why is it mischievous, fun and sexy if a guy has a string of lovers that he's cast aside; loved and left? Yet if a woman dates three or four people in an eight-year period she is a serial dater and it gives some 12-year-old the idea to call her a 'slut' on the internet?' It's not the same for boys, it just isn't and that's a fact.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Talk to the man with the reasons why.

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.

The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.

When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

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.

So casually cruel in the name of being honest

I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

I think I fall into the category of the hopeless romantic, and I think youdo too, because you're here ... The tricky thing about us, the hopeless romantic, is when we fall in love with someone, when we say hello - and it's magical - we never imagine that hello can turn into a goodbye. And when we kiss someone - and it's magical - we never ever imagine that it can turn into a last kiss.

Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly.

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity

I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.

A development deal is an in-between record deal. It's like, a guy saying that he wants to date you but not be your boyfriend. You know, they don't wanna sign you to an actual record deal or put an album out on you. They wanna watch your progress for a year.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple.

I've learned when to get out. I've never wasted too much time with the wrong person, and that's one thing I'm proud of. The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking or not having the chance to meet the right person. And if it doesn't feel right, it isn't right. How do you know if something feels right? I think the great defining factor for me is whether I want more. When they drive away, do I wish they would turn around at the end of the street and come back? Or am I fine that they're going home?

You are just too young to believe that everything is not going to be okay.

I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.

I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.

I write songs about what I go through.

Being "fearless" isn't about being unafraid, it's about being TERRIFIED and still going for it.

In any relationship each person should support the other; they should lift the other up.

I grew up on a Christmas tree farm in Reading, PA. It was the most magical fun childhood. We had grape arbours and we would make jam with my mom. My dad would go to work and he'd come home. He'd clean out stalls and fix split-row fences.

What I've learned is not to change who you are because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

Love is one of those things that should be so simple. You don't need to think about it and over analyze it when it's good.

And I know I make the same mistakes every time. Bridges burn, I never learn. At least I did one thing right. I'm laughing with my lover, making forts under covers, trust him like a brother. - Call It What You Want

I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about, and she's got everything that I have to live without ... He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar, the only one who's got enough of me to break my heart. He's the song in the car I keep singing; don't know why I do.

We don't just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it's weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don't understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I can remember her singing, the thrill of it," she said. "She was one of my first inspirations.The people around me provided all the inspiration I needed. Everything I wrote (at that time) came from that experience, what I observed happening around me.

Words, how little they mean when they are too late.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

I'm only up when you're not down
Don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

I don't drink to get drunk. That's just not cute.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Maybe I got mine but you'll all get yours.

We mistake our mistakes as being damaged.

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever,

I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything.
I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

I really don't want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

See, the thing is I didn't think that that song would get much attention because it's such a personal song to me. I just wrote it about my childhood, and I didn't know how that would read on an album. But it's been everybody's favorite song. I didn't tell my mom. It was a total secret. So I wrote it in secret and then decided to record it secretly, so she had no idea that the song was recorded. My producers sent me the track and I synched it up to all my baby videos and I played it for her one Christmas Eve, and she bawled her eyes out. She didn't even think that it was my song. She didn't think there was any way for me to record a song without her knowing.

All we are is skin and bone trained to get along.

Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.