Taylor Swift Quotes

I always tell people that the music industry may be frustrating sometimes, but the singing never gets old. It's something I grew up doing, and I take the bitter with the sweet.

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

The important thing for any young singer or musician is to keep focused on becoming a better musician as opposed to becoming a bigger celebrity.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.

In a way, Delhi has contributed in my journey to become a successful singer.

You should know that you need talent, passion, and luck to be a singer.

I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.

I've been working in music since I was a little kid. I would do background singing in my dad's studio all the time when I was a kid. I went to label meetings when I was pretty young, and obviously my goal was, like, 'No, we're gonna hold off.'

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.

But if you want to be a songwriter-based musician, whether you play punk or rock or country or jazz, whatever, you have to work on your songwriting and you have to work on being able to play in front of people, I think. That performance is how you create the groundwork for a lasting career.

I'm a songwriter and I'd love to make that a part of my career.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label.

Music is my hustle.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.