I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor SwiftRead
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.
Interpretation
Music and art are valuable and should be compensated appropriately.
In this quote, Taylor Swift emphasizes the intrinsic worth of music and art, arguing that because they are important and rare, they deserve to be paid for. She advocates for artists to recognize their value and set prices for their work rather than allowing it to be available for free, highlighting the need for fair compensation in the creative industry.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of supporting local artists.
I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.
I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'
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