Quotes from 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.

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

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.

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

We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

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

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

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.

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

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

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more

All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about 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 think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.