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" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
George Strait
Morning
Out
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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 can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. "
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Great
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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've been fortunate. "
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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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" I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. "
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Good
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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. "
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Best
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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 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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" 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've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. "
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Liked
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Always
" 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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Take
Work
Hard
" 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
" Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time. "
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Sinatra
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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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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. "
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Live
Life
Time
" 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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Will
Quit
Last
" 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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Always
Kind
Country
" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "
George Strait
Band
Wills
Texas
" 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 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 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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Early
Alone
Career
" 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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Change
Singer
Music
" 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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Trying
End
Result
" 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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Find
Great
Special
" 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. "
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Always
Doing
Feel
" 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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Deer
Hunting
Good
" 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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" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "
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" I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. "
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