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
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
We work hard when we’re in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around. – George Strait
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. – George Strait
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
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
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
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. – George Strait
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. – George Strait
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
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
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
I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he’s a great singer – and he really does good material. – George Strait
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
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
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. – George Strait
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
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
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. – George Strait
I think that all my albums are different enough where I don’t feel like I did this the last time. – George Strait
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. – George Strait