Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift

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Since 1989, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has given the world some of its most quotable lines. Known for her autobiographical songwriting and artistic reinventions, their words carry the weight of lived experience. Discover 33 of Taylor Swift's most memorable quotes, ranging across Music, Mom, Respect, Relationship, and Fear. Readers often gravitate to this one: "All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years."

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

— Taylor Swift

Dating

All Quotes by Taylor Swift

“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”

— Taylor Swift

Business

“I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.”

— Taylor Swift

Fear

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

Change

“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.”

— Taylor Swift

Happiness

“People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

Music

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

— Taylor Swift

Dating

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

Experience

“A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.”

— Taylor Swift

Money

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

— Taylor Swift

Faith

“I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”

— Taylor Swift

Change

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

— Taylor Swift

Cool

“All you need to do to be my friend is like me.”

— Taylor Swift

Friendship

“For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.”

— Taylor Swift

Mom

“Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!”

— Taylor Swift

Music

“I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.”

— Taylor Swift

Fear

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

Mom

“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.”

— Taylor Swift

Future

“When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.”

— Taylor Swift

Respect

“In a relationship each person should support the other they should lift each other up.”

— Taylor Swift

Relationship

“I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.”

— Taylor Swift

Music