George Strait famous quotes

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

#Loyalty #Country #Lying

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.
-- George Strait

#Song #Gone #Young

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

#People #Loyal

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today,
-- George Strait

#Country #Today #Great Friend

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

#Country #Real #Thinking

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.
-- George Strait

#Jobs #Trying #Records

You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.
-- George Strait

#Song #Cheater

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

#Years #Doubt #Progress

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time
-- George Strait

#Long

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.
-- George Strait

#Children #Father #Daddy

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

#Careers #People #Want

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.
-- George Strait

#Country #Song #Country Love Song

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more
-- George Strait

#Country #Song #Love You

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.
-- George Strait

#Country #Trying #World

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
-- George Strait

#Country #Forever #Music Is

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.
-- George Strait

#Children #Angel #Evil

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
-- George Strait

#Song #Morning #Mind

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.
-- George Strait

#Successful #Records #Being Successful

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.
-- George Strait

#Romance #Twelve #Dense

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.
-- George Strait

#Romantic #Sweet #Long

I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
-- George Strait

#Religious #Space #Giving

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.
-- George Strait

#Morning #Politics #Rich

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
-- George Strait

#Art #Media #Lust

I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.
-- George Strait

#Inspirational #Inspirational Life #Men

I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.
-- George Strait

#Remember #Forget

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.
-- George Strait

#Future #Looks #Tomorrow

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
-- George Strait

#Country #Song #Virginia

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.
-- George Strait

#Fall #Heart

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

#Thinking #Different #Albums

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
-- George Strait

#Country #Important #Music Is

I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.
-- George Strait

#Thinking #Blue #Done

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

#Males #Singers #Opinion

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

#Singing #Mouths #Coming Out

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.
-- George Strait

#Texas #Australia #Bahamas

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

#Country #Entertainment #Entertainment Industry

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.
-- George Strait

#Long #Stage #Walks

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

#Country #Fun #College

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
-- George Strait

#Thinking #People

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

#Thank You #Thanksgiving #Song

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
-- George Strait

#Texas #Band #Bob

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.
-- George Strait

#Circles #People #Trying

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.
-- George Strait

#Song #Special #Stuff

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.
-- George Strait

#Hunting #Texas #Utah

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

#Hard Times #Careers #Long

You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.
-- George Strait

#Real #World #Trouble

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.
-- George Strait

#Writing #Son #Ideas

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.
-- George Strait

#Years #Fans #Loyal

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

#Blessed #Taken #Gone

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
-- George Strait

#Band #Bigs #Frank

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.
-- George Strait

#Song #Thinking #Attention

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.
-- George Strait

#Thinking #Doe #Singers

I need someone like me.
-- George Strait

#Quality #Needs

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
-- George Strait

#Moments

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

#Thank You #Country #Careers

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.
-- George Strait

#Laughter #Way #Lifetime

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?
-- George Strait

#Do You Love Me

All my Ex's live in Texas, and that's why I hang my hat in Tennessee.
-- George Strait

#Relationship #Texas #Tennessee

I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.
-- George Strait

#Relationship #Names #Lasts

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.
-- George Strait

#Country #Reality #Track

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.
-- George Strait

#Dream #Love You #Hero

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.
-- George Strait

#Relationship #Beautiful #Believe