Ricky Skaggs Quotes (22 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

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.

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.

Your Country, Your Vote.

I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.

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

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.

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.

We try to say, 'look, your vote does count.' If everybody felt that way way that their vote didn't count nobody would get elected.

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.

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

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

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.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

I think the country as a whole is embracing this music more than it ever has.

These albums last forever, not just my lifetime but my children's lifetime. So it's important to me to make a good product. And when I put Skaggs Family Records on it, I want it to be the kind of quality that I'm proud of and the kind of quality that people have come to expect from my records.

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 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.

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.