George Strait Quotes

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I'm most comfortable when you just give me a guitar and I just sing.

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

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.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I've been singing since I was 12. And I think that all the information is finally starting to chill out. And I don't have to be fancy. I can just kind of do things and simplify things and try to be the best singer I can be.

I would love to do a duet with Tim McGraw. I think that would be fun.

Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.

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

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I'd much rather be worrying about playing that note in tune, and picking out the best way to arrange the song, rather than thinking about pricing for the download. It's not art.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.

I love singing fun songs; I've built a career on them.