Top 94 Quotes About George Strait
#1. Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.
Jake Owen
#2. I think my brand of country music is that's been influenced by not just the rough-stock rodeo side or Ted Nugent's "let's get crazy style", but also the stand-up and sing style's like George Strait and Merle Haggard, and also the wild side of Chris Ledoux
Cody Johnson
#3. I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase ... So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work.
Brad Paisley
#4. Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone
#5. When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.
Taylor Swift
#6. I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.
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#7. As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.
Luke Bryan
#8. We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.
Lee Ann Womack
#9. I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.
Christian Kane
#10. George Strait is the king and Kenny Chesney is about as big as it gets right now, though I wouldnt mind going back out on the road with him. Maybe I could go out on the road with some singers from other genres.
Dierks Bentley
#11. I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's basically just a guy trying to pick up a girl at a bar.
Blake Shelton
#12. When I was 3, my mom sent in a video of me singing George Strait to 'America's Funniest Home Videos.'
Austin Mahone
#13. I ain't never saw a hearse with a luggage rack." (Quote by George Strait, country singer, and appearing at the end of Bob Mitchell's memoir, Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death.
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#14. You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.
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#15. 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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#16. I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
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#17. 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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#18. From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.
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#19. Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today,
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#20. I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.
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#21. You're the only one and only
My heart's beating for
I love you, need I say more
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#25. The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
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#26. You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.
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#27. 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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#28. All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
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#29. I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
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#31. 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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#32. Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us."/He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.
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#33. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.
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#34. 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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#35. I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.
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#36. I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
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#38. Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
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#39. I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.
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#40. 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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#41. I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
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#42. 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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#43. 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.
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#44. I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
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#45. Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
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#46. 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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#47. In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.
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#48. I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
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#49. I'm not the hero who will always save the day, don't always wear a white hat, don't always know the way. I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true, but I'll always be the man in love with you.
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#50. 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.
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#51. All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee
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#52. 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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#53. She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.
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#54. I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.
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#55. Cause I'm carryin' your love with me
From West Virginia down to Tennessee
I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me
It's my strength for holdin' on
Every minute that I have to be gone
I'll have everything I'll ever need
Carryin' your love with me
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#56. 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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#57. You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.
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#58. I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.
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#59. 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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#61. I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.
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#62. Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
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#63. It's been a long hard ride. See you on the other side
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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.
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#68. You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
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#69. 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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#70. You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
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#71. I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
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#72. I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.
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#73. 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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#74. As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.
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#75. I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.
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#79. 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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#80. In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.
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#81. Baby fall into my kiss
It should just happen like this ...
... drink up this love ...
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#82. Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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.
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#86. I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.
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#87. Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.
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#88. My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
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#89. On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.
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#90. 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.
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#91. If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is.
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#92. I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
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#93. 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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#94. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
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