{"id":895946,"date":"2026-10-27T03:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895946\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T03:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:34:09","slug":"taylor-swifts-nashville-songwriters-hall-of-fame-full-speech-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895946\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift’s Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Full Speech: Read"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> got nostalgic during her acceptance speech at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame<\/a>. The superstar became the youngest-ever member of the institution after she was inducted by Brad Paisley during a ceremony Monday night in Nashville.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift thanked Lainey Wilson for her stripped-down performance of \u201cLove Story\u201d and even poked fun at Paisley, her former tourmate. \u201cWe\u2019ve been estranged since 2007,\u201d she told the country singer before divulging the reason to the star-studded audience at the Music City Center. \u201cHe took a tour prank too far, filled my entire tour bus with live crickets, thousands of them. For months I couldn\u2019t sleep. All night I considered buying a pet lizard to eradicate the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her speech, the singer-songwriter reflected on her time in Nashville, where she began her storied career, and shouted out co-writer Liz Rose and producer Nathan Chapman, who worked on her self-titled debut album.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can read Swift\u2019s full induction speech below.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo I am so honored to be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. I got the news and I was just kind of staring at the words. I was staring at Nashville. I was just like, \u201cWow, this is crazy.\u201d And then I kind of zeroed in on a few words that have had a particularly intense impact on my life. The first one being \u201cNashville,\u201d the second \u201csongwriters.\u201d And the last one, \u201cfame.\u201d I\u2019d like to start with songwriters and expanding upon the impact that word has had on my life.<\/p>\n

\n\tI started writing songs when I was a little kid and I knew from the time I wrote my first song that even if it couldn\u2019t be my career, it would be my passion. It would be what I centered my entire life around. Nashville is the place that I went to in my middle school daydreams. It was the place where all the wisdom that I wished to acquire existed in one place. All the lessons that I wished to learn existed in this magical place for me. And it ended up being all of that and more. It ended up being everything. <\/p>\n

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\n\tFame, that\u2019s sort of a byproduct of my love for music. It\u2019s kind of like songwriter plus Nashville equals fame. It\u2019s why a lot of people know the words to my music, which is awesome. It\u2019s also why there\u2019s sort of like these daily random doses of chaos that just pop up in my life every once in a while, every couple of hours. That can be kind of weird, but I have tools in place in my mind that help me navigate that and get back to true north when life feels so bizarre.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose tools are my memories and the memories that I visit most frequently when I need to return back to some semblance of remembering what normalcy is and why I do this. I think back to when I first got to Nashville and I started writing on Music Row. I was lucky enough to get a publishing deal with Sony Publishing when I was 14 and I just hit the ground running. I started writing every single day. I learned so much. I was like a sponge and I have really curly hair and it was yellow, so I kind of looked like a sponge too. But I learned by repetition. I think you truly learn a craft when you do it over and over and over and that is what the magnificent songwriters that work in this amazing town do. There is no music community like this music community. I know. I checked all the communities. There\u2019s no one doing it. <\/p>\n

\n\tI learned so much. I learned how to push through a creative block when you\u2019re in the middle of a session. Are we going to tunnel under this? Are we going to hurdle over it? I learned which ideas are worth fighting for, which ideas are worth letting go of and move on to the next one. I learned how to accommodate when your co-writer has a hangover or when they\u2019re going to need to talk about their divorce for a really long time before we write anything. Because one thing that I did learn is that songwriters, although they possess the superhuman ability to understand and interpret the human condition and insane levels of empathy, they are just people too. And they are people who in a lot of ways raised me and guided me through my formative years.<\/p>\n

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\n\tOne of the memories I revisit a lot on good days and bad because it just makes me feel cozy is that I used to write a lot in two favorite buildings. I had two favorite places that I loved to write the most. The first one being the Sony Fire Hall because you could hear the other writers through the walls and I just kind of liked to pretend that I was in the Brill Building. And then my most favorite was a place called Jody Williams Music, an independent publishing company that was located in a little craftsman house. Let\u2019s say the year is like 2005 in this memory. My mom would pick me up from Hendersonville High School, drive me downtown and drop me off and I\u2019d scamper in the front of Jody Williams Music and I\u2019d say \u201cHi\u201d to Katherine who worked at the front and sometimes her boyfriend Eric would be there visiting. Things have gone great for them. They\u2019ve got a couple kids, married like 20 years now. His full name is Eric Church, just for clarity.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut then I\u2019d run up the stairs and I would plop down on the couch in front of Liz Rose in this room that was painted red. And I\u2019d be like, \u201cLiz, this happened at school today. I\u2019ve got a hook that I wanna like, you know, you got to write this thing.\u201d And she\u2019d get her notebook and we\u2019d just write so fast. When we finished with the song, I kind of jog out the back of this house to the backyard where there was a garden shed. And in that garden shed was a one person studio where Jody Williams Music\u2019s favorite demo producer, Nathan Chapman, was making demos.<\/p>\n

\n\tI would run in and Nathan would play every single instrument on these demos and he interpreted my music so intuitively that later on I would fight for him to produce my entire first album. And it was our first album, both of us. And I am shocked and stunned to say that as of a couple days ago, that album is 20 years old. I\u2019ve been very fortunate I\u2019ve gotten to genre hop and travel the world and write with so many different people and in so many different ways. And the only reason that I\u2019ve been able to have that kind of dexterity in my creative process is because of the fundamentals and the foundation that I learned here in Nashville. And I never forget that for a single second when I tell every single person I know about what we have here. And I\u2019m so incredibly honored to be inducted into this sacred club, especially at this point in my life.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s not lost on me how crazy this is. I will cherish it forever because Nashville is the place that honed and polished the thing about myself and the thing about my life that I am the most proud of and the most passionate about. So to be here with you and to be getting to have this moment, I am truly grateful and it just feels like one of those amazing Nashville moments I\u2019m going to revisit on a rainy day. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

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\n\tSwift\u2019s fellow inductees included Shawn Camp, Bruce Channel, Lyle Lovett, and Lee Thomas Miller, along with country music icon George Strait, who was honored with the Career Make Award. The night also honored the late J.I. Allison, a member of Buddy Holly\u2019s Crickets, who was inducted into the institution\u2019s Legacy Category for his work on rock classics like \u201cThat\u2019ll Be the Day,\u201d \u201cPeggy Sue,\u201d and \u201cMore Than I Can Say.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s induction at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame comes at a special time for the star. This past week, on Oct. 24, the singer-songwriter\u2019s self-titled debut celebrated its 20th anniversary<\/a>. The honor also comes as Swift continues to highlight her country music roots<\/a>. Earlier this year, she released her first country song in years, \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You<\/a>.\u201d During an interview for the Grammys Icon Sessions<\/a>, she gushed about her past. \u201cI love my country roots more and more the further along this path I get and I want to honor them more and more,\u201d Swift said at the time, adding, \u201cI feel more tied to them, more loyal to them \u2026 The people that shaped who I am as an artist and as a writer, that all happened in Nashville.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift got nostalgic during her acceptance speech at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The superstar became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,4915],"class_list":["post-895946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}