Taylor Swift Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Together

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Artist

• When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Sound, Roles

• I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Fun, Party

• My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Simple, Definitions

• You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Men, Energy

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Song, Years

• My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Dream, Parent

• 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.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Thinking, Different

• It never mattered to me that people in school didn't think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it - though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, 'I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.'

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Fun, School

• I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Boys, Play

• I love being a part of the country-music community.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Love Is, Community

• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Pride, People

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

• Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, People, Groups

• I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Childhood, Tree

• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Records

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