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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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" 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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" You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. "
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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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" I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was. "
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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
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" I've been fortunate. "
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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'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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" We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around. "
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" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "
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" 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. "
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" If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. "
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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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" 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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" I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "
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" I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done. "
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