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Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. She began her career in country music but transitioned to pop, releasing multiple critically acclaimed albums such as "Fearless," "1989," "Lover," and "Midnights." Swift has won numerous... show more

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

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

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quote icon I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

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quote icon 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.

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

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

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

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

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

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quote icon I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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quote icon I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

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quote icon Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

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quote icon I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

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

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quote icon I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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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quote icon 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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quote icon My imagination is a twisted place.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon There's room for role models who make mistakes.

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quote icon 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.

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

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quote icon I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

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quote icon 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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quote icon Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

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

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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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quote icon I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

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quote icon I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

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quote icon I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

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quote icon 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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quote icon I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

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quote icon I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

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quote icon I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

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quote icon You can't be in love with a Google search.

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

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

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

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

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quote icon 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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quote icon 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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quote icon 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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quote icon As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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quote icon 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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quote icon As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

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

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quote icon Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

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quote icon As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

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quote icon Faith Hill is a big role model.

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quote icon There are no rules when it comes to love.

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

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

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quote icon If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

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quote icon My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through now, they'll hear about it on a record someday. They'll hear the real story. There's a little bit of lag time. It's not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it's much more accurate.

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quote icon I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

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quote icon I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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quote icon I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

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quote icon Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

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quote icon I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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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quote icon Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

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quote icon For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

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quote icon I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

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

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quote icon I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

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quote icon I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.

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quote icon For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

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quote icon I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

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quote icon I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

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quote icon When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

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quote icon I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

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quote icon My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

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quote icon I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

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

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quote icon Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

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quote icon I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

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quote icon A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

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quote icon One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

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quote icon I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

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quote icon Love is the one wild card.

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quote icon I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

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quote icon I don't want people to think of me as sexy.

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quote icon There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

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quote icon 'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.

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quote icon I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

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quote icon I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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quote icon My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

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quote icon Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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quote icon I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

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quote icon I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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quote icon When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

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

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quote icon I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

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quote icon Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

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quote icon I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

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quote icon When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.

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quote icon My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

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quote icon I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

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quote icon I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

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quote icon I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

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quote icon I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

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quote icon I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

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quote icon I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

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quote icon One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

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