Top 188 Taylor Quotes

I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.

To me, true style icons have been few and far between. Elizabeth Taylor comes to mind. I never got to meet her while she was alive, but she is one of those people I have always admired in terms of her sense of style.

I don’t know of any coach – black, red or green – who could have coached Lawrence Taylor better than Bill Parcells.

There’s two people I would say to try to go and watch who are probably the future of tennis. One girl called Taylor Townsend, she got a wildcard from the event into Wimbledon; she’s an American girl. On the men’s side, there’s an Australian guy called Nick Kyrgios; he’s 19, and he was the number one junior in the world.

We don’t sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I’ll never find a Taylor Swift. You can’t find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won’t find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don’t.

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, ‘You’re signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!’

Trinity Taylor and Ginger Minj both went on one of these big roast tours where the comedians all make fun of each other and I wrote their sets for that. Sometimes I help Monet X Change punch up jokes for her show, ‘The X Change Rate.’ I don’t charge Monet because she’s my best friend.

I’ve always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.

I had actually finished the manuscript of ‘The Wild Trees’ and turned it in to Random House when all of a sudden word came. Michael Taylor and his colleague, Chris Atkins, another explorer, have just knocked one out of the park. They found the world’s tallest tree. The tree is named Hyperion, 379.1 feet tall.

I’ve never been typed. John Wayne played ‘that guy’ all the time – mostly because that’s all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

Nobody’s gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they’re largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing ’37 years of emotional baggage.’

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

It’s not the coolest thing in the world to be walking around humming the Taylor Swift song. It’s not as cool to be singing along with the number one song in the country as it is to be the jaded, indifferent hipster who wants to turn you on to something that nobody else is talking about.

I’ve always loved big eyes, like those of Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor. But my mother didn’t allow me to wear make-up until I was 15.

When I was getting started, I was so busy just fighting my way through, and I was under contract at Warner Brothers. I did 40 hours of color television with the late Robert Taylor as a young cop.

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone’s game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach – her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

I couldn’t be a Taylor Swift. I would really suck at being Taylor Swift.

I realised my dream of playing for England when I first met Claire Taylor and then Charlotte Edwards at the age of 11. I didn’t even know there was an England Women’s team until then.

I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane’s Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you’re that age.

My James Taylor albums sat quite comfortably next to my Rush and Aerosmith collections.

Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the ‘Daily Mirror.’ They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don’t really have any memories of them as a couple.

Corey Taylor won’t be mad at me saying, but I didn’t think there’d be other bands. I thought we’d wear masks forever.

Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke – George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.

My role models in the business were the older guys on my team when I first got there: Gray Scott, Adrian Smith, Roland Taylor. These were the guys who took me under their wing, and really schooled me in terms of what the business was about.

Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.

A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we’re an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it’s their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.

Someone who gave me a lot of confidence was my friend Martin Taylor, he’s the most famous man in Bolton. He is a pianist and used to play in one of the local pubs. He would sing everything from classical to rock to pop. He was amazing.

I confess I’m a big fan of Taylor Swift.

My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles – I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.

Taylor’s first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, ‘1989’ is strictly pop.

I love Taylor Swift, and I’ve always been such a fan of her.

He’s not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can’t sing.

We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world – and it came true – and that we could have five labels and become the biggest independent record company in the world – and it came true.

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Cleopatra.’ She has the same bone structure. I’m kind of obsessed with ‘Jersey Shore.’ People don’t give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

The second we were done on ‘The Sing-Off,’ we were like, ‘All right, now we’re competing with Rihanna and Taylor Swift.’ We’ve always set the bar high. We want a hit.

The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don’t think it’s dead. I just think we’ve got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

I remember once Robert Taylor invited me to lunch. I asked him, ‘What is your ambition?’ He said, ‘I want to have 10 very good suits.’

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

Who would want to get back together with Taylor Swift after having dated her? I’m sure dating her is like talking to a white sheet of paper with a little bit of vanilla ice cream on it that doesn’t say anything.

Confidence is something I hope to instill in my son, Taylor, who is studying classical civilisation at Exeter University and is a brilliant hockey player. His mum and I have parted, but I have nothing but admiration for her.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything – James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King – I worked on all of that stuff.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don’t think she’s dating for love – I think she’s dating for creativity. So let’s get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.

Taylor Swift – I don’t ever hear anything of hers where I’m like, ‘Oh, so-and-so could’ve cut that.’

What makes a star or a movie into a legend? I don’t know. For instance, when Robert Taylor and I made ‘Party Girl’ in 1958, nobody was particularly excited about it. Now, it’s considered by thousands to be a classic. There are ‘Party Girl’ cults.

I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.