Ricky Skaggs Quotes

• Great music is great music, period.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• Country’s hip; it’s cool music.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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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.

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Ricky Skaggs (32)

Birth:	18th July, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Musician, Producer, Singer

About

Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs is a country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster and banjo.

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