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
It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
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