Famous Quotes
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"You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying."
Quote by -George Strait
"Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away."
Quote by -George Strait
"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."
Quote by -George Strait
"I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music."
Quote by -George Strait
"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."
Quote by -George Strait
"You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever."
Quote by -George Strait
"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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -George Strait
"I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back."
Quote by -George Strait
"I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was."
Quote by -George Strait
"In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -George Strait
"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."
Quote by -George Strait
"You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble."
Quote by -George Strait
"We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -George Strait
"Addicts are selfish, the most selfish people you’ll ever meet. And self-pitying. And manipulative. Always making promises they’ll never keep. They disgust me."
Quote by -Gordon Ramsay
"Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters."
Quote by -Gordon Ramsay
"I recall when we opened in New York how the designer locks were impossible to slide shut, often leading to a difficult encounter no matter which side of the door you were on."
Quote by -Gordon Ramsay
"Loo doors without a decent, large hook are as infuriating as a lock that doesn’t offer you full protection."
Quote by -Gordon Ramsay
"It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago."
Quote by -Gordon Ramsay
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Quote by -Hellen Keller
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Quote by -Hellen Keller