Top 500 Taylor Swift Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I’m just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers.”

— Taylor Swift

452. “I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.”

— Taylor Swift

453. “I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.”

— Taylor Swift

454. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

455. “There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.”

— Taylor Swift

456. “It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn’t match the reality.”

— Taylor Swift

457. “I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.”

— Taylor Swift

458. “I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.”

— Taylor Swift

459. “Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.”

— Taylor Swift

460. “Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.”

— Taylor Swift

461. “Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall out.”

— Taylor Swift

462. “When you run into someone that you used to be in love with, all that you have is drama, desperation and not know what to do.”

— Taylor Swift

463. “It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.”

— Taylor Swift

464. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

465. “Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.”

— Taylor Swift

466. “I think that growing up is something that you should do gradually.”

— Taylor Swift

467. “When you strategize a relationship too much, like, “We’re not gonna be public about it, and we’re gonna say this in interviews,” when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that’s unfair for the relationship.”

— Taylor Swift

468. “I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‘made it’ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.”

— Taylor Swift

469. “You need to be happy with yourself or you’ll never be able to be happy in a relationship.”

— Taylor Swift

470. “There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It’s crazy. That’s my Alexander Wang theory.”

— Taylor Swift

471. “I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I’d just write.”

— Taylor Swift

472. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

473. “Maybe I got mine but you’ll all get yours.”

— Taylor Swift

474. “A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they’re so awesome and they give me great presents.”

— Taylor Swift

475. “My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he’s ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

— Taylor Swift

476. “I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.”

— Taylor Swift

477. “I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.”

— Taylor Swift

478. “Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.”

— Taylor Swift

479. “Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.”

— Taylor Swift

480. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

481. “It’s one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there’s an arena full of people singing it.”

— Taylor Swift

482. “Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.”

— Taylor Swift

483. “You know the greatest films of all time were never made.”

— Taylor Swift

484. “I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don’t really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they’re good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.”

— Taylor Swift

485. “We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when you’re either falling in love or losing it.”

— Taylor Swift

486. “All we are is skin and bone trained to get along.”

— Taylor Swift

487. “Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.”

— Taylor Swift

488. “The song ‘Innocent’ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.”

— Taylor Swift

489. “Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.”

— Taylor Swift

490. “I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.”

— Taylor Swift

491. “I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.”

— Taylor Swift

492. “When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.”

— Taylor Swift

493. “When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it’s all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I’m definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.”

— Taylor Swift

494. “As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.”

— Taylor Swift

495. “When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it’s like, I want to get on stage right now. It’s the most amazing feeling.”

— Taylor Swift

496. “I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.”

— Taylor Swift

497. “You’re going to have people who are going to say ‘Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends’ and I think frankly that’s a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They’re all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there.”

— Taylor Swift

498. “I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because they’re sincere in it. Or somebody who’s really emotional, and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes them beautiful because that’s sincerely who they are.”

— Taylor Swift

499. “I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.”

— Taylor Swift

500. “Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.”

— Taylor Swift