More - Ricky Skaggs Quotes

The symphony gets the benefit for it as well. I've never seen a bad review on one of these shows.

Ricky Skaggs

 Benefit

He was listening to a lot of jazz and a lot of horn players. He was just real open with his playing and went places musically that other musicians weren't going. He would break out a whole vocabulary of licks that nobody else was doing on the fiddle.

Ricky Skaggs

 Jazz

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

 American Musician Art

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.

Ricky Skaggs

 American Musician Country

With the name and the recognition that we've had for the last 15 years here in the business, I really think that we can make a difference and just let people know that, hey, bluegrass is cool, it's hip, and it's awesome, and if it's done in a great way and a great presentation, I don't know who wouldn't like it.

Ricky Skaggs

 Business

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

Ricky Skaggs

 American Musician Children

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

 American Musician

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.

Ricky Skaggs

 American Musician

There's a great Scripture about counting the cost before you start building the house, ... I think that's a big part of the problem. Where's the bottom end? Well, it fell out.

Ricky Skaggs

 

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Ricky Skaggs