Top 60 George Strait Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— George Strait

2. “Life’s not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

— George Strait

3. “You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I’ll make yours just as sweet.”

— George Strait

4. “I’m not here for a long time. I’m here for a short time.”

— George Strait

5. “I’m the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.”

— George Strait

6. “I ain’t rich, but Lord I’m free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I’ll be.”

— George Strait

7. “In all the world you’ll never find a love as true as mine.”

— George Strait

8. “Do you love me, do you wanna be my friend?”

— George Strait

9. “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.”

— George Strait

10. “I need someone like me.”

— George Strait

11. “All my Ex’s live in Texas, and that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee.”

— George Strait

12. “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.”

— George Strait

13. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

15. “I’m a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.”

— George Strait

16. “I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you’re up there for the show. I like that part.”

— George Strait

17. “It’s been a long hard ride. See you on the other side.”

— George Strait

18. “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.”

— George Strait

19. “You can lead a heart to love, but you can’t make it fall.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

21. “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.”

— George Strait

22. “I should have checked the price tag before I gave them my last name.”

— George Strait

23. “Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it’s not my whole life.”

— George Strait

24. “I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget.”

— George Strait

25. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

27. “I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I’ll be an old troubadour when I’m gone.”

— George Strait

28. “I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.”

— George Strait

29. “On the Richter scale of love and romance, you’ve hit a twelve.”

— George Strait

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30. “You know, traditional country music is something that’s going to be around forever.”

— George Strait

31. “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.”

— George Strait

32. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

34. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

36. “I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.”

— George Strait

37. “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.”

— George Strait

38. “I think ‘Beyond the Blue Neon’ is the best I’ve ever done.”

— George Strait

39. “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.”

— George Strait

40. “I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he’s a great singer – and he really does good material.”

— George Strait

41. “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.”

— George Strait

42. “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.”

— George Strait

43. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

45. “I’ve always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.”

— George Strait

46. “I’ve had great fans, and they’ve been so loyal over the years.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

48. “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.”

— George Strait

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

— George Strait

50. “I don’t think my music’s as traditional as people make it out.”

— George Strait