Taylor Swift Quotations | Page 3

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.

I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.

I think that the idea of finding another person to share your life with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life. And yes, living your dreams is so important too, and a lot of times I’ve put that before everything else. But then you get to a place where the whole time you’re living these dreams, you look beside you to say to someone, “Hey, isn’t this so much fun?” And if there’s no one there to say it to, what’s the point?

For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her and have kids with her, I think that's taking something that potentially should be celebrated - a woman writing about her feelings in a confessional way - that's taking it and turning it and twisting it into something that is frankly a little sexist.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

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.

Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.

I think your life is full of first loves because every time you love someone new, you love them in a different way.

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.

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.

Actually, I think you have to know that whatever advice you give, they may not take it. The priority should be on keeping the friendship rather than giving the best advice. Your best advice is usually, 'Walk away from him! Tell him you never want to see him again!' But if you are dealing with someone still in love, nothing you say can change their feelings. All you can do is be there for them and pick them up every time they get hurt. Until, that is, they are ready to move on for themselves.

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it. I also learned how to needlepoint ironic cross-stitches of rap lyrics and gave them to my friends as presents. I’ll let you decide which is the more important revelation.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

Never compare yourself to beautiful girls.

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.

When you’re young you just run, but you come back to what you need.

Real love still happens sometimes. It's not just something we make up when you're nine. I have to believe that. You do too.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

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

Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

When I meet my fans, it's not like meeting a stranger. It's like saying hello to someone that I already know.

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

I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

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.'

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another

You've had your share of secrets and I'm tired of being the last to know

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

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

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.

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.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.

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

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.

If you want some big revelation, since 2010 I have dated exactly two people. The fact that there are slide shows of a dozen guys that I either hugged on a red carpet or met for lunch or wrote a song with ... it's just kind of ridiculous.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

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

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.

My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.

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

In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are

The beginning of love is all about the butterflies, but the end of it is when you can't get out of bed in the morning.

I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well

Any relationship I ever have will have to be hidden, or else it will be destroyed before it even starts.

What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.

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

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.

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.

being open isn't the same as being weak.

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

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

The difference between a good song and a great song is a good song is one that you know, you'll put on in your car or you'll dance to it. But I think a great song you'll cry to it, or you get chills. I think a great song says how you feel better than you could.

I want to make people feel things when they hear my music I want to give a song to someone who is going through a break up, I want to give a song to someone who loves someone and can't tell them. A song for someone who has just fallen in love and a song for just people who are living their lives.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

I always have to be writing.

My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl.

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.

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.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

I started making choices based on what I wanted, and didn’t feel like I needed to justify them. If I wanted to cut my hair, I did it. If I wanted to move to New York, I did it. If I wanted to take a spontaneous road trip, I did it. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

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.

I can't promise you that you'll ever live in a world where people don't hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.

If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome.

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.

My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.

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