Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.
Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
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.
I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
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.
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.
You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.
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.
I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
It's been a long hard ride. See you on the other side
Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
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.
I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.
You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music.
Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
Baby fall into my kiss It should just happen like this... ....drink up this love....
I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can.
I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
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.
Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.
Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away.
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.
