25+ Best Taylor Swift Quotes (2023)

Let’s talk about the legendary Taylor Swift, who at just 16, made a name for herself in the country music scene. Her early hits like “Love Story” and “You Belong With Me” captured the hearts of both country and pop fans, and helped her albums achieve multi-platinum success.

Swift’s music continued to rule the charts with her 2014 album, 1989, which featured chart-toppers like “Shake it Off” and “Blank Space.” This album won her Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, adding to her already impressive list of accolades.

She didn’t stop there, folks! Her follow-up albums reputation (2018) and Lover (2019) proved to be huge commercial successes as well. It’s safe to say that Taylor Swift is a true superstar who has dominated the music industry with her amazing talent and hard work.

To learn more about Taylor Swift, read her biography here.

In this article, you will find many wonderful Taylor Swift quotes.

Best Taylor Swift Quotes

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

Taylor Swift

 

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. 

Taylor Swift

 

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes. 

Taylor Swift

 

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

Taylor Swift

 

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect. 

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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

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine. 

Taylor Swift

 

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

Taylor Swift

 

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

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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time. 

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

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I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me. 

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I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore. 

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I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day. 

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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful. 

Taylor Swift

 

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. 

Taylor Swift

 

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. 

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

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People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has. 

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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience. 

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I’m intimidated by the fear of being average. 

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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. 

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

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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy. 

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Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options. 

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I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life. 

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I have to work really hard to get the record deal – I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar. 

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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light. 

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I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we’re raised as little girls to think that we’re a princess and that Prince Charming is going to sweep us off our feet. 

Taylor Swift

 

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review. 

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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. 

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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me. 

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If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation. 

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Faith Hill is a big role model. 

Taylor Swift

 

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster. 

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I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing. 

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My imagination is a twisted place. 

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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. 

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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out. 

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There are no rules when it comes to love. 

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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

 

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

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It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed. 

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I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know? 

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

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My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry. 

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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself. 

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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place. 

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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. 

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A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?’ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it. 

Taylor Swift

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again. 

Taylor Swift

 

When you say ‘control freak’ and ‘OCD’ and ‘organized,’ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people. 

Taylor Swift

 

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

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‘Love Story’ I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes. 

Taylor Swift

I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. 

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I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend. 

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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. 

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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. 

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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do. 

Taylor Swift

 

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

Taylor Swift

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