Ricky Skaggs Quotes

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Great, Hope

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.
Ricky Skaggs

Love, Music, After

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
Ricky Skaggs

Life, Art, Country

Country's hip; it's cool music.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Cool, Country

Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.
Ricky Skaggs

Work, Best, Heart

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
Ricky Skaggs

Mind, Heart, Career

Great music is great music, period.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Great, Period

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Mom, Dad

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.
Ricky Skaggs

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
Ricky Skaggs

Down, Place, Ready

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
Ricky Skaggs

Life, Music, Left

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Good, Greatest

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
Ricky Skaggs

Hate, Negative, Matter

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
Ricky Skaggs

Love, Music, Fun

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Best, Keep

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
Ricky Skaggs

Life, Marriage, God

I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Family, Mean

I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'
Ricky Skaggs

God, Heart, Someone

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Ricky Skaggs

Father, Children, Four

I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?'
Ricky Skaggs

God, Heart, Spirit

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.
Ricky Skaggs

Home, Thankful, Father

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.
Ricky Skaggs

Work, Fun, Career

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
Ricky Skaggs

Love, Music, Today

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there with an answer to a problem that you're carrying around with you that you didn't think you were going to hear about.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Thinking, May

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Great, Try

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Nationality: American

Born: July 18, 1954

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