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" I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years. "
George Strait
Been
Years
Loyal
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying. "
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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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Places
Never
" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "
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Music
Swing
Kind
" 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. "
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Time
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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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" 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. "
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Morning
" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "
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Too
Who
Like
" 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
" 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
" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
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Morning
Out
Songs
" 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. "
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Music
Best
Change
" Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time. "
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Time
Sinatra
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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. "
George Strait
Writing
I Can
Find
" 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 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. "
George Strait
Never
Song
New
" 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 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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Good
Doing
Time
" 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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Work
People
" You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. "
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Know
You
Music
" 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. "
George Strait
Listening
Think
Time
" 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 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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Old
Like
Feel
" I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. "
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Great
Me
Experience
" I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. "
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Liked
Frank
Always
" I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. "
George Strait
Thank You
Great
I Can
" 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. "
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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. "
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