Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

I think music is supposed to be shared.

Music is about self-expression and representing the times, and I think fashion is the same. It took me a long time to find my own style, both in terms of fashion and music.

Music's my life, and it always has been.

Rap music was and is, for me, everything.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.

I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

As a kid, I didn't know much about Prince - who he was and all the complexities of his personality - but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.

I still love 'The Cure' more than almost any other band. But they were really, truly like the first band that I really loved and felt was mine, you know. At a pivotal time in my life when I was 13, 14 years old.

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

I felt that pop music didn't represent me. And that's why I made my own.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

We all feel like we're alone, but as artists, we get to see firsthand from our fans that we're not. Hearing them scream the words to your songs is the most amazing feeling.

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

It just means so much to me that America voted for me, and I get to see all my friends and family supporting me and crying with me.

You don't have a connection to your fans if they don't have a connection to you and the music.

I listen to a lot of songs, and they aren't talking about anything. I don't connect with them. I'll listen to something like Musiq Soulchild's 'Just Friends,' and I'm like, 'Wow, I really feel what he's talking about.' That's how I want people to feel about my music.

Music, to me, is something that connects to the soul.

Music, or the type of music that I'm writing, is very personal.

If I'm hanging out with my friends or I'm working out, I'll listen to female singer-songwriters from the '90s because that's where my heart lies.

I can admire music where you feel the composer has everything organized and perfectly shaped, but it doesn't touch me. I like to feel that a composer is wounded, like all of us.