My dad was a guitar player, and he sang. He knew what he liked about music. He had a great memory, and he could show me things.
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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
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
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.
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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
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
We started the label basically to do roots-type music, whether it be Ricky Skaggs or, say, the Whites, or anybody that I feel has a heart for roots music and no real market or label that will give them an opportunity to do something like that.
Ricky Skaggs
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