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 intimidated by the fear of being average.”

— Taylor Swift

Fear

All Quotes by Taylor Swift

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

— Taylor Swift

Faith

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Respect

“I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!”

— Taylor Swift

Music

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

— Taylor Swift

Friendship

“I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.”

— Taylor Swift

Music

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

— Taylor Swift

Work

“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

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Dating

“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 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 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

“What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.”

— Taylor Swift

Mom

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

— Taylor Swift

Music

“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

“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