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."

“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

All Quotes by Taylor Swift

“I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.”

— Taylor Swift

Funny

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

— Taylor Swift

Fear

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Respect

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

— Taylor Swift

Change

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Friendship

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Happiness

“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

“I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.”

— Taylor Swift

Work

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

— Taylor Swift

Dating

“For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.”

— Taylor Swift

Music

“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

“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

“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

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

— Taylor Swift

Faith