Quotes by George Strait - Page 2

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
George Strait / Singer
Thank You
Thanksgiving
Great
Numbers
Song
Songwriters
Thanks
Wonderful
Also
Became
Those
Say
Number
Thank
Wrote
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This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.
George Strait / Singer
Thank You
Careers
Country
Radio
Want
Great Me Country
Thank
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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.
George Strait / Singer
Being Successful
Records
Successful
Hit Records
In The Beginning
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She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.
George Strait / Singer
Angel
Children
Evil
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All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee
George Strait / Singer
Exes
Tennessee
Texas
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I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.
George Strait / Singer
Country
Reality
Track
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I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
George Strait / Singer
Loyalty
Country
Country Singer
Lying
Love Change Music
Lies
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Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.
George Strait / Singer
Feels
Long
Stage
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Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf.
George Strait / Singer
Golf
Life Love Music
Fish
Country Music
Hunt
Outdoors
Play Golf
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If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.
George Strait / Singer
Achieve
Counts
End Result
Studio
Specific
Stadium
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I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.
George Strait / Singer
Great People
Best Work Great
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If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.
George Strait / Singer
Best Way
Change Best Good
Change The World
Country Music
Fits
Good Song
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You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.
George Strait / Singer
Circles
Haggard
Legends
People
Trying
Buck
Circle
Out Here
Sinatra
Wills
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I love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder.
George Strait / Singer
Blue
Chaos
Cockpit
Spread
Fish
Catch
Grander
Happening
Marlin
Sudden
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I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.
George Strait / Singer
Careers
Good Things
Hard Times
Long
Time Good Long
Hard Time
Highlight
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I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.
George Strait / Singer
Careers
People
Understood
Want
Alone Me People
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I'm not the hero who will always save the day, don't always wear a white hat, don't always know the way. I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true, but I'll always be the man in love with you.
George Strait / Singer
Dream
Hero
Love You
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I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.
George Strait / Singer
Clubs
Doubt
Progress
Years
Began
Doubts
Notice
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I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.
George Strait / Singer
Australia
Bahamas
Costa Rica
Mexico
Offshore
Panama
Someday
Texas
Venezuela
Fish
Gulf
Thomas
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I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.
George Strait / Singer
Given
Natural
Song
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I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.
George Strait / Singer
Jobs
Different
Trying
Good Great Look
Material
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I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.
George Strait / Singer
Arizona
Canada
Deer
Hunting
South
Texas
Utah
Most
Also
Pretty
Been
Spend
Hunt
Mule
Pretty Good
Ranch
Season
Supply
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I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.
George Strait / Singer
Crossover
Traditional
Always Remember Way
Sudden
Swung
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I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait / Singer
Something New
Totally
Love Cool Me
Spanish
Sung
Translation
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I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.
George Strait / Singer
Best Always Find
Gotta
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Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.”/He said, “Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.
George Strait / Singer
Children
Daddy
Father
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I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special.
George Strait / Singer
Something Special
Song
Songwriters
Special
Stuff
Great Always Me
Great Me Looking
Depend
Great Me Always
Fits
Great Songs
Send
Tons
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I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.
George Strait / Singer
Date
Event
Quit
Structured
Tour
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When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.
George Strait / Singer
Best Time Together
Each Time
Hundreds
Listened
Picking
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I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.
George Strait / Singer
Miles
Mouths
Opening
Singing
Stage
Words
Coming
Walk
Million
Mouth
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Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me It's my strength for holdin' on Every minute that I have to be gone I'll have everything I'll ever need Carryin' your love with me
George Strait / Singer
Country
Song
Virginia
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I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone.
George Strait / Singer
Morning
Touring
All Day
Somewhere
Show
Check
Stay
Early
Rarely
Resting
While
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I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down.
George Strait / Singer
Hometown
Nervous
San Antonio
First One
One Or Two
San
Settle
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I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.
George Strait / Singer
Last Time
Records
Life Time Long
Life Time Done
Across
Onstage
Quit
Tour
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