Taylor Swift Quotes

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.

I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like 'Glee'.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

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

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

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

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

I expect to make a career out of country music.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

I'm treating country music like it's a sport. I'm looking at where my competition is and realized I needed to work on my songwriting.

I moved to Nashville at 17 to make music, and since then I've put everything I have into doing it right.

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

'I'm Sorry' was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.