Zitat des Tages von Ricky Skaggs:
Country's hip; it's cool music.
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.
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 great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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.
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 at home. He kept those like fine diamonds, I mean he kept them, you know, in a box and was very, very careful of them, you know.
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.
That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
When I came here it wasn't that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that's what has made me successful.
I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
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'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
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 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.
