Top 33 George Strait Quotes

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.

I’ve been fortunate.

You don’t have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin’ song, that’s what I’m saying.

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.

Of all the songs I’ve recorded, ‘Amarillo By Morning’ always sticks out in my mind.

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.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

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.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he’s a great singer – and he really does good material.

I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.

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.

If twang isn’t what I do, I don’t know what is.

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.

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.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

You know, traditional country music is something that’s going to be around forever.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it’s not my whole life.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

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.

You’ve got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you’re headed for trouble.

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.

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.

My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

I don’t think my music’s as traditional as people make it out.

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.

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.

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.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

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.

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.

I think ‘Beyond the Blue Neon’ is the best I’ve ever done.