Taylor Swift People Quotations

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

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.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

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.

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.

If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

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.

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.

As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's 'deep' or 'complicated.' But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem.

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.

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I'm a girls' girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they'll end up in a slideshow of people I've apparently dated on the Internet.

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

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

You have to able to make fun of yourself. Don't take things too seriously and when people make fun of you, laugh at it.

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.

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

Your success, your life, your happiness. Don't let mean people bring that down.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people.

It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3

You have to stop looking in the mirror and realize that your living for yourself, not other people.

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

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.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

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.

You can never forget the people who were always there for you from the beginning.

I always aspire to just be really nice to people. To be kind.

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

People throw rocks at things that shine.

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

It's not our job to make people like us if they don't.

People put you down because you're above them.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends...

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.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

It doesn't bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs - because at least they're looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

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.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

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.

I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.

People don't usually compliment your character.

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

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.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

Sometimes the people you thought would be there forever somehow aren't.

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.

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

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.

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.

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.

People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of.

I watched their reactions and emotions, especially to understand what was what I was doing wrong. But then I realized that if I could see these people and take note of everything I saw, I could write a good song.

In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

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

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

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

I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.