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."

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Work

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

— Taylor Swift

Happiness

“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 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

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

— Taylor Swift

Music

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

— Taylor Swift

Relationship

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

— Taylor Swift

Change

“In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.”

— Taylor Swift

Business

“Faith Hill is a big role model.”

— Taylor Swift

Faith

“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

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Respect

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

— Taylor Swift

Fear

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

— Taylor Swift

Cool

“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

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

— Taylor Swift

Dating

“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 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