#want

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. ↗

— George Strait

#career #country #country radio #enough #folks

Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. ↗

— Peter Straub

#better #consistent #everyone #get #go

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. ↗

— George Strait

#actually #any #band #began #clubs

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. ↗

— George Strait

#back #bit #came #comes #country

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

— George Strait

#country music #hear #i #immediately #music

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. ↗

— George Strait

#as far as #comes #date #event #far

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. ↗

— George Strait

#been #done #events #everybody #everything

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. ↗

— George Strait

#hit #hit records #i #in the beginning #make

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. ↗

— Mark Strand

#feel #follow #free #imagine #least

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certain #certain point #dishonest #point #stuff