American - Musician | July 18, 1954 -
I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
Ricky Skaggs
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The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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's hip; it's cool music.
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