Top 500 Taylor Swift Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

403. “My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.”

— Taylor Swift

404. “I never want to end up being a self-centered, vain human being.”

— Taylor Swift

405. “I know what it’s like to pine away for that summer romance you just can’t get back.”

— Taylor Swift

406. “There’s something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly that you jump in headfirst without looking.”

— Taylor Swift

407. “When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‘Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.’”

— Taylor Swift

408. “The little I am exposed to hurts my feelings. The only things I can really control are my songs and my behavior. The rest? If I focused on it, that would lead to insanity.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

410. “You know, I went out on a normal amount of dates in my early 20s, and I got absolutely slaughtered for it. And it took a lot of hard work and altering my decision-making. I didn’t date for two and a half years. Should I have had to do that? No.”

— Taylor Swift

411. “I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.”

— Taylor Swift

412. “Writing ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together’ was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.”

— Taylor Swift

413. “It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.”

— Taylor Swift

414. “I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

416. “I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.”

— Taylor Swift

417. “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?”

— Taylor Swift

418. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

419. “Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.”

— Taylor Swift

420. “I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.”

— Taylor Swift

421. “I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.”

— Taylor Swift

422. “I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.”

— Taylor Swift

423. “I keep one eye on the path I didn’t choose every day.”

— Taylor Swift

424. “Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.”

— Taylor Swift

425. “My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a ‘home base’ and stick with your comfort style.”

— Taylor Swift

426. “Faith Hill is a big role model.”

— Taylor Swift

427. “I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‘If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.’”

— Taylor Swift

428. “I don’t have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don’t have any interest in being drunk.”

— Taylor Swift

429. “Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they’re great people.”

— Taylor Swift

430. “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

431. “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.”

— Taylor Swift

432. “I have to believe in fairy tales and I have to believe in love.”

— Taylor Swift

433. “I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.”

— Taylor Swift

434. “Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.”

— Taylor Swift

435. “As much as I would really like to have saved myself heartache, embarrassment or gossip, I also know that my biggest mistakes have turned into my best lessons. And sometimes my greatest career triumphs. If my life had been turbulence-free, maybe my music would be beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be full and the mantle would be a little more empty.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

437. “When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.”

— Taylor Swift

438. “I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.”

— Taylor Swift

439. “When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.”

— Taylor Swift

440. “I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.”

— Taylor Swift

441. “Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.”

— Taylor Swift

442. “I’ve stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that’ll ruin your day in a second.”

— Taylor Swift

443. “You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.”

— Taylor Swift

444. “I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.”

— Taylor Swift

445. “I’m the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

447. “When you say, ‘I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,’ people always say, ‘Oh, really?’ They think of the TV show. So I just say, ‘A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.’”

— Taylor Swift

448. “Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.”

— Taylor Swift

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

— Taylor Swift

450. “I’m just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers.”

— Taylor Swift