Best 55 quotes of George Strait on MyQuotes

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

Cause I'm carryin' your love with me From West Virginia down to Tennessee I'll be movin' with the good lord speed, carryin' your love with me It's my strength for holdin' on Every minute that I have to be gone I'll have everything I'll ever need Carryin' your love with me

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

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.

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 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.

I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

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 got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

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.

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

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

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

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.

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.

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.

I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.

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.

I'm not the hero who will always save the day, don't always wear a white hat, don't always know the way. I may not even be the dream you wanted to come true, but I'll always be the man in love with you.

I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I need someone like me.

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 remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.

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 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done.

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

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 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.

I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.

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

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.”/He said, “Daddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.

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.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

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.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.