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" I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. "
George Strait
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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. "
George Strait
People
Know
Circle
" 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
Deer
Hunting
Good
" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "
George Strait
Too
Who
Like
" 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
Early
Alone
Career
" 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
Me
Great
Enough
" 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. "
George Strait
Will
Quit
Last
" We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around. "
George Strait
Take
Work
Hard
" 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
Change
Singer
Music
" You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble. "
George Strait
Real
You
World
" I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. "
George Strait
Liked
Frank
Always
" 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. "
George Strait
Emotions
You
Walking
" 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
You
Enjoy
" 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
Mind
You
Morning
" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "
George Strait
Band
Wills
Texas
" 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
Everything
Along
Successful
" 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
Always
Kind
Country
" If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is. "
George Strait
Know
Twang
" 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
Good
Doing
Time
" 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. "
George Strait
Writing
I Can
Find
" 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
Love
Australia
Fish
" 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
Always
Doing
Feel
" I've been fortunate. "
George Strait
Been
Fortunate
" I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time. "
George Strait
Time
Like
Enough
" 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
Music
Best
Change
" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
George Strait
Morning
Out
Songs
" I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. "
George Strait
Swing
Fun
Country
" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "
George Strait
Music
Swing
Kind
" Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time. "
George Strait
Time
Sinatra
Greatest
" Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf. "
George Strait
Love
Golf
Music
" 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
Find
Great
Special