Top 500 Taylor Swift Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you’re grateful for.”

— Taylor Swift

202. “You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.”

— Taylor Swift

203. “It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love.”

— Taylor Swift

204. “A song is a favorite song, not because the singer can hit and hold a high note, but because of the words, their meaning.”

— Taylor Swift

205. “Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.”

— Taylor Swift

206. “You call me up again just to break me like a promise; so casually cruel in the name of being honest; I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here; ’cause I remember it all, all, all too well.”

— Taylor Swift

207. “Never regret your past. You have to move on and learn from it.”

— Taylor Swift

208. “Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.”

— Taylor Swift

209. “I love my fans, I could not be able to do it without you and I would not be here.”

— Taylor Swift

210. “Songs are my diaries; they always have been. You have to put your trust in everyone because putting down those real, personal details and thoughts that make a song authentic also opens you right up. I am constantly misunderstood; a lot of people just don’t get me.”

— Taylor Swift

211. “I don’t believe in endorsing a product that you don’t want to endorse.”

— Taylor Swift

212. “Fearless is knowing that someday things will change.”

— Taylor Swift

213. “Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.”

— Taylor Swift

214. “All of my songs are autobiographical.”

— Taylor Swift

215. “If guys don’t want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn’t do bad things.”

— Taylor Swift

216. “I want to wear his initial on a chain round my neck not because he owns me but cuz he really knows me, which is more than they can say. – Call It What You Want.”

— Taylor Swift

217. “I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.”

— Taylor Swift

218. “Promise me this, that you’ll stand by me forever. But if God forbid Fate should step in and force us into a goodbye. If you have children someday, when they point to the pictures please tell them my name. Tell them how the crowd went wild, tell them how I hope they shine.”

— Taylor Swift

219. “Be like a snake. Be nice to everyone, unless someone steps on you.”

— Taylor Swift

220. “Happiness isn’t a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.”

— Taylor Swift

221. “You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don’t understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.”

— Taylor Swift

222. “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

223. “I think love is one of those things that it’s only really bad because it was once good. You can’t miss something that was never amazing. So, what I’ve learned is that even if it ends badly, it’s worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.”

— Taylor Swift

224. “There are no rules when it comes to love.”

— Taylor Swift

225. “Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.”

— Taylor Swift

226. “Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it’s just basically another word for equality.”

— Taylor Swift

227. “I only sing in my church choir. Except the other night, I stole the show at karaoke night.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

229. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

230. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

231. “If you have something about yourself that’s different, you’re lucky. It’s not a curse.”

— Taylor Swift

232. “Being a powerful woman who also exhibits great warmth is an incredible feat because people think that to be powerful you have to be cold, and you don’t.”

— Taylor Swift

233. “We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something.”

— Taylor Swift

234. “It’s not our job to make people like us if they don’t want to. It’s not our job to change people. That’s beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.”

— Taylor Swift

235. “Once you think about it, aren’t the people who are living their lives without worrying about other people’s opinions having more fun than those judging them?”

— Taylor Swift

236. “People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.”

— Taylor Swift

237. “My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it’s so drawn from my own life and my own stories.”

— Taylor Swift

238. “I’m a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, ’cause I remember it all too well.”

— Taylor Swift

239. “I’m so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.”

— Taylor Swift

240. “I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.”

— Taylor Swift

241. “I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.”

— Taylor Swift

242. “Mom is a planner, an organizer. She’s very strong and practical. She’s the person that’ll tell me if I ever start to change my personality. The balance of the two of them created my personality.”

— Taylor Swift

243. “Once a relationship is done, it’s done. You can’t do that back and forth thing.”

— Taylor Swift

244. “I do not need some guy around in order to get inspiration, in order to make a great record, in order to live my life, in order to feel okay about myself. And I wanted to show my fans the same thing.”

— Taylor Swift

245. “There’s a general rule that I always go by, and it’s that you fall for who you fall for. Whatever small issue you get hung up on, whether it’s because they’re shorter than you, younger than you or they live far away – if you really are crazy about someone, none of that matters.”

— Taylor Swift

246. “Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn’t speak up, say I love you, or say I’m sorry.”

— Taylor Swift

247. “Don’t you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine.”

— Taylor Swift

248. “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

249. “I have always felt a little strange about it being so unique that I’m not a train wreck. Like, this weird fluke that I’m not – partying all the time.”

— Taylor Swift

250. “I’ve gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.”

— Taylor Swift