Taylor Swift Quotes

“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

“We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”

“When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.”

“I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.”

“Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.”

“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.”

“I have to practise to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.”

“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.”

“As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself.”

“I've always strived to be successful, not famous.”

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

“I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.”

“Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.”

“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.”

“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 to learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.”

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”

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

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

“I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, "Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here."

“My mom and I have always been really close. 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.”

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

“I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”

“Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.”

“I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.”

“Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.”