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Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter known for her narrative lyrics and diverse musical style. Since the release of her self-titled debut album in 2006, Swift has quickly become a leading figure in the global pop music scene. Her music blends elements of country, pop, and rock, winning her numerous awards and a dedicated fanbase.

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“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.”

People Ifs Feels Kind School Asks Felt Walks Records Middle Industry Labels Ask Me Rejection Polite Music Industry Middle School Record Labels

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“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.”

Trying Wells Next Goal Accomplish Headlines

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“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.”

People Matter School Faces Walks High School Negative No Matter What Like Me Sober Supportive Select Hometown Being Sober

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“Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.”

Thinking Knows Writing Ideas Different Song Love You Sticks Great Idea Like Love Lot Like Love

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“I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever - wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.”

Needs Long Home House Watches Tvs Cat Checks Hotel Online Apartment Email Long Day

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“I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.”

Feels Events Amount Clothes Scary Expensive Shops Caps Extravagant Pampered

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“I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.”

Made Different States Song Pages My Friends Grades Profile Eighth Grade

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“I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.”

Humans Kind Has Beens Human Beings Situation Cases Type Factors

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“I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.”

Knows Trying Happens Know How Normal And Love Glasses Lenses Normal Life Abnormal Telescopes Magnifying Magnifying Glass Normal And Abnormal

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“I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.”

Feels Kind Song Turns House Sound Car Stress Radio Clubs Cease Turn-on House Music

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“I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.”

Stuff Hours Hometown Dvds

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“I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.”

Knows Needs Writing Answers Knowing Happened Skins Obsession Bother

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“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 Ifs Knows I Can Play Happens Situation Imagine Heard Prom Christina

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“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Hard Artist Genre Labeling

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“I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.”

Thinking Way Looks Stories Sound Talking Interviews Print Gossip Columns Better Ways

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“I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.”

Want I Can Waiting Can Do Perfect Design Dresses Someday I Can Do It

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“I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.”

Different Three Sleep Rooms Cities Car Mom One Day Radio My Mom Hotel Hotel Rooms Sleeping In Car Rental

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“I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'”

Giving Years Wells Country Remember Song Records Five Female Radio Labels Relate Thirty Five Years Housewife Demographics Five Year Olds Record Labels

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“I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?”

Thinking Want Ideas Different Records Approach Exciting Albums Different Approach

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Firsts Made Different Country Sometimes Made It Blueprints

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“I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.”

People Thinking Way Writing Mind Seems Song Next Goal Levels Records Mature Next Level

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“I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.”

Thinking Want Needs Feels Play Happens Guy Like You Tape Not Interested

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“I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.”

Thinking Acting Music Is Mark Branching Out

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“I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.”

Ifs Stories Bigs Would Be Emotion Roles Scripts My Time Take Time Pouring Time Away

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“I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.”

Views Boots Heels Cowboy Cowboy Boot

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“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.”

People Ends Problem Guy Girl Internet Linked Guy Friend

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“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.”

People Way Long Kids Certain Seeing Adults Concerned Complaining

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“I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.”

Way Giving Feels Moments Felt Music Is Rhythm Glorify Soundtracks Instantaneous Slow Motion

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“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.”

People Kind Shows Girl Come Up Love Life Before And After

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“I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.”

Men Has Beens Guy Found Challenges Careers Groups Compare Girlfriend

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“I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.”

Ifs Important Feelings Pay Skins Thick Songwriters Protective Armor Thick Skin

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“I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Country Hard Enough Play Energy Felt Boys Theory Prejudice Fortunate Affected Ballgame

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“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.”

People Way Trying Stories Song Attention Pay Attention Bother

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“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.”

People Thinking Mind Humans Laughing Human Nature Dumb Embarrassed

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“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.”

People Should Easier Prove Alternatives Iceberg

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“'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.”

Mean Persons Faces Song Next Felt Levels Computer Ruins Next Day

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“My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.”

People Want Writing Years Kind Different Girl Audience Groups Diverse Different Place

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“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

Knows World Whole Social Dad Degrees Six Performances Constant My Dad Whole World Friendly Butterfly Cheerleader Cathy Social Butterfly

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“My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.”

Ifs Knows I Can Problem Law Order Turns Watches Crime Quiet Only Time Turn Off Csi

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“On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.”

Play Care Dies Causes Grey Corpses Anatomy Grey's Anatomy

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“One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.”

Looks Quality Careers Stage Style Easier Comfort Elements Musical Zone Comfort Zone Unpredictable Predictable Center Stage Musical Style

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“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.”

Ifs Want Persons Enough Goal Successful Fortunate Being Successful Songwriters

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“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.”

People Country Pride Hip Hop Lifestyle Hips Hops Celebration Recognise Similarity

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“Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.”

Enough Happens Wanted Curiosity Producers Songwriters Max

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“Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.”

Ifs Feels Persons Feelings Cry Singing Sitting Bedroom

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“So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.”

Knows Country Girl Records Towns Come Up Obsessed Stations Compliment

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“The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.”

Mind Stories Reading Powerful Short Story Cool Things

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“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.”

People Ideas Night Song Process Middle Singing Tiny Miraculous Middle Of The Night

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“The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!”

Ifs Way Enough Bigs Hate My Friends Phones Loud Gossip Phone Calls Untrue Ordeals Publicists

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“'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.”

Stories Shows Running Wanted Silent Killing Seats Awards Shields Award Shows Away From Each Other

Author:Taylor Swift

About the Author

Born: December 13, 1989
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 977

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