Taylor Swift Quotes

All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don't chase the wave.

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

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.

People are gonna get tired of Linda Perry the producer, but I will always be in the music business. And I will always be successful in it.

I would love to work with Pharrell one day. Like, my biggest dream.

I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.

Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

I'm consistently recording and releasing stuff online or YouTube videos or whatever it is. I just don't know if it's going to be a full on, I'm the next Rihanna, or whatever. I'm not going for it to that level. But I love making music and I don't think I could stop if I wanted to.

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.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

I just wanted to keep growing and touring with my band.

When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.