Top 33 George Strait Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

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.

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.

I’ve always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

I’ve been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

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

I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I’ll pay closer attention to the lyrics.

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.

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

I’ve had great fans, and they’ve been so loyal over the years.

We work hard when we’re in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I’ve been fortunate.

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.

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.

I think that all my albums are different enough where I don’t feel like I did this the last time.