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
I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage.
Interpretation
Performing often helps an artist understand their true self and artistry.
In this quote, Taylor Swift expresses the idea that extensive touring and performing allows her to discover deeper aspects of her identity as a performer. The more she engages with audiences and spends time on stage, the more she learns about her own strengths, vulnerabilities, and artistic expression, ultimately contributing to her growth as an artist.
In practice
This quote can inspire young musicians in a workshop about stage presence.
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.
Iβve 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
I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.
Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.
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