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