Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

Country's hip; it's cool music.

— Ricky Skaggs

Great music is great music, period.

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— 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…

— Ricky Skaggs

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…

— Ricky Skaggs

I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always…

— Ricky Skaggs

I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls…

— Ricky Skaggs

When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of…

— Ricky Skaggs

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the…

— Ricky Skaggs

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record…

— Ricky Skaggs

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I…

— Ricky Skaggs

I mean, I could tell that I really had... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with…

— Ricky Skaggs

What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next-…

— Ricky Skaggs

It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call…

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things…

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's…

— Ricky Skaggs

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so…

— Ricky Skaggs

I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things…

— Ricky Skaggs

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so…

— Ricky Skaggs

Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be.…

— Ricky Skaggs

Maybe you're going to a concert thinking you're not going to hear anything but music. But you may walk away from there…

— Ricky Skaggs

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

— Ricky Skaggs

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that,…

— Ricky Skaggs

The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin…

— Ricky Skaggs