George Strait Quotes

• Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.

  George Strait

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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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• 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 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 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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• 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’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

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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’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’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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• 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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• I’ve had great fans, and they’ve been so loyal over the years.

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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’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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  George Strait

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• If twang isn’t what I do, I don’t know what is.

  George Strait

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George Strait (48)

Birth:	18th May, 1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Composer, Guitarist, Record Producer, Singer

About

George Harvey Strait was born in Poteet, Texas, USA. He is an American singer, actor, composer, guitarist, and record producer known as the "King of Country" and one of the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. Strait's success began when his first single "Unwound" was a hit in 1981. He won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum, 33 platinum, and 38 gold albums. His best-selling album is Pure Country, which sold 6 million. His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box, which sold 2 million copies. His role in several films include: The Soldier, Pure Country, Grand Champion, and Pure Country 2: The Gift.

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