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" 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
Attention
Time
First Time
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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 Can
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" 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. "
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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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Morning
" I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. "
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Liked
Frank
Always
" 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
Like
Feel
" 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. "
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You
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" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
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Morning
Out
Songs
" You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying. "
George Strait
You
Sing
Saying
" 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
" 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'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. "
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Best
Work
People
" 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'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
" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "
George Strait
Music
Swing
Kind
" I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out. "
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Make
Music
Think
" I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. "
George Strait
Listen
Good
Great
" 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
" 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've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years. "
George Strait
Been
Years
Loyal
" I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. "
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Swing
Fun
Country
" I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time. "
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Time
Like
Enough
" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "
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Band
Wills
Texas
" 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
Good
Look
Job
" 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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Emotions
You
Walking
" 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. "
George Strait
Live
Life
Time
" 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
" 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
" I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done. "
George Strait
Think
Best
I Think
" 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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Listening
Think
Time