American - Musician | May 18, 1952 -
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
George Strait
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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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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 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 want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
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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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Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
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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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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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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
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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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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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