George Strait Quotes
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Swing is my favorite kind of music.
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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.
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I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
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I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
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In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
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I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
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We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.
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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.
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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.
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I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.
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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.
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You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
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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.
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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.
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If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
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Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
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I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
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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.
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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.
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I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.