Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

A great song will say how you feel better than you ever could.

Taylor Swift

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

Tavis Smiley

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

Tanya Tucker

When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.

Tanya Tucker

It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

Talib Kweli

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

Talib Kweli

"Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

Talib Kweli

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

Sxip Shirey

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

Syd Barrett

I like songs that are simple.

Syd Barrett

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

Suzy Kassem

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe. Always be in command of your music. Only you can control and shape its tone. If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

Tony Bennett

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

Tony Bennett

That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.