Quotes By George Strait
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
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
George Strait
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
I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
George Strait
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
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
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
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
George Strait
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
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
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
You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
George Strait
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
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.
George Strait
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
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
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
I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.
George Strait
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