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.
Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. - Ricky Skaggs
Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
- 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 hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.
When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. - Ricky Skaggs
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. - 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. I want to make a difference in my generation.
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… - 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 sitting on his couch singing…
Great music is great music, period. - Ricky Skaggs
Great music is great music, period.
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead. - Ricky Skaggs
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
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… - 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 much hurt in this world and... music is such a…
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 … - Ricky Skaggs
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 …
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