Ricky Skaggs Quotes

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

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

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

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

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

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.

Great music is great music, period.

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

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.

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

Country's hip; it's cool music.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

Country's hip it's cool music.