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" If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts. "

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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. "

" If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "

" 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 can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. "

" I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "