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’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’ve had great fans, and they’ve been so loyal over the years.
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 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 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.
You’ve got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you’re headed for trouble.
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.
I’m a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.
Swing is my favorite kind of music.
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 like the part where you walk up on the stage and you’re up there for the show. I like that part.
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 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.
Of all the songs I’ve recorded, ‘Amarillo By Morning’ always sticks out in my mind.
I don’t think my music’s as traditional as people make it out.
On the Richter scale of love and romance, you’ve hit a twelve.
I’m glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.