Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taylor Swift

Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse.

Taylor Swift

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Taylor Swift

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

Taylor Swift

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

Taylor Swift

And you know there’s nothing like writing a song about someone who’s mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

Taylor Swift

The Moment I Knew” ”was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever,

Taylor Swift

Listening to my songs is like reading my diary.

Taylor Swift

I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.

Taylor Swift

Well, you stood there with me in the doorway, my hands shake, I'm not usually this way. But you pull me in and I'm a little more brave. It's the first kiss, it's flawless, really something, it's fearless.

Taylor Swift

Spending a lot of time alone, gave me a lot of time to think. A lot of time to think gave me the time to write songs.

Taylor Swift

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.

Taylor Swift

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

Taylor Swift

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

Taylor Swift

I really don’t want a compilation of sounds. I just need them to be songs.

Taylor Swift

I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Taylor Swift

I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.

Taylor Swift

But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love stories and prince charmings and happily ever after. That's why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS.

Taylor Swift

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

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.

Taylor Swift

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.

Taylor Swift

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

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.

Taylor Swift

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

Taylor Swift

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.

Taylor Swift

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

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.

Taylor Swift

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

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

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

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life,

Joseph Conrad

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Josh Turner

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.