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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. "

George Strait

Chaos

Dream

Blue

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "

" I've been fortunate. "

George Strait

Been

Fortunate

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Old

Feel

" We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around. "

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

George Strait

Great

Experience

" I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "