George Strait Quotes

It takes so much energy and time to make one song perfect.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I get very deep into the writing and recording process.

I didn't have a lot to do with the first record.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

I like to make great albums.

Every record has been very different, so I can't really compare them. The first record was good. I originally recorded about half the songs on that one in 2003 or something, and then I went back a few years later and re-recorded them and added some other songs.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

Making records is hard work.

For 'Twisted Fantasy,' I probably spent 180 days in the studio.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

I've always been interested in what happens in the studio.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.