George Strait Quotes
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You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
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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.
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Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
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I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
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I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
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I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
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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.
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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.
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You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
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I've been fortunate.
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Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
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I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
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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.
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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.