"For me, great music doesn’t just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music."― Taylor Swift Topic(s): MusicMore From Taylor Swift"All of my favorite people – people I really trust – none of them were cool in their younger years.""A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.""In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature."More In Music"I’ve spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music."― Renee Fleming"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you."― James Taylor"I’ve studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I’ve found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times."― Cat Stevens