Ricky Skaggs Quotes

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind

  Song: Can't Control the Wind, Album: Solid Ground, 2007

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• What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church.

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  Past, Years, People

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• 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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Art, Shining, Solo

  "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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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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  Country, Art, Thinking

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

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  Healing, Way, Forget You

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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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Hurt, Healing

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Bluegrass, Ifs

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Country, Sound, Today

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• Great music is great music, period.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Great Music, Periods, Music Is

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• 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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Singing, Pieces, Orchestra

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Playing Music, Want, Feels

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• Country's hip; it's cool music.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Country, Hips, Cool Music

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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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Heart, Differences, Excellent Work

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• 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?

  Ricky Skaggs

  Heart, Next, Spirit

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• I had some good teachers. One of the greatest teachers I've had is bluegrass music: going back and listening to Bill Monroe's music, the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs. When I was with Ralph Stanley I learned a lot from him.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Teacher, Brother, Listening

  "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Giving, Excellence, Lord

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Children, Father, Shoes

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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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Heart, People, Trying

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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.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Looks

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• 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.

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  Mom, Country, Song

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Song, Fun, People

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

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  Fun, Trying, Stories

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• After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Thinking, People, Mosaics

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

  Ricky Skaggs

  Cutting, Feels, Left

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

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  Slow Down, Ready, Feels

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