Ricky Skaggs Quotes

That`s the good thing about what we`re doing playing bluegrass. It doesn`t matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.

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.

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

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.

Country`s hip; it`s cool music.

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.

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.

I`m not a goody-two-shoes. I`m just a father with four children.

I hate negative songs; I won`t sing them. It doesn`t matter if it`s sold 2 million more albums.