George Strait Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?

I need someone like me.

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

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

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.

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

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

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

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

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.

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.

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.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.