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" You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble. "
George Strait
Real
You
World
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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
" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "
George Strait
Band
Wills
Texas
" 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
" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "
George Strait
Too
Who
Like
" 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 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. "
George Strait
Mind
You
Morning
" I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time. "
George Strait
Time
Like
Enough
" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "
George Strait
Music
Swing
Kind
" 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
" 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
" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "
George Strait
Morning
Out
Songs
" 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've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise. "
George Strait
Sing
Places
Never
" 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. "
George Strait
Early
Alone
Career
" Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf. "
George Strait
Love
Golf
Music
" 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. "
George Strait
Change
Singer
Music
" 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 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. "
George Strait
Good
Doing
Time
" 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
" I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. "
George Strait
Listen
Good
Great
" 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 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'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. "
George Strait
Best
Work
People
" 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 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
" Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time. "
George Strait
Time
Sinatra
Greatest
" 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 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
" I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out. "
George Strait
Make
Music
Think
" You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying. "
George Strait
You
Sing
Saying