Top 75 Quotes About Skaggs
#1. A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
Chris Stapleton
#2. I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band.
Rick Moranis
#3. I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
Linda Ronstadt
#4. I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.
Brad Paisley
#5. The media's job is to question a premise.
Joey Skaggs
#6. 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
#7. Logan felt raw inside from the look of betrayal she had leveled on him. Who was he to demand honesty when every aspect of his presence in her life, even on the periphery, was a lie?
Cindy Skaggs
#9. I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.
Joey Skaggs
#10. No fear. A fitting epitaph, more curse than blessing, the truth of their very existence.
Cindy Skaggs
#11. I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
Ricky Skaggs
#12. I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Ricky Skaggs
#13. But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Joey Skaggs
#14. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#15. I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
Ricky Skaggs
#16. I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
Joey Skaggs
#17. Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.
Joey Skaggs
#18. Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.
Joey Skaggs
#19. 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
#20. Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack.
Cindy Skaggs
#21. No living person could disappear like Sofia. She'd have a go-bag stashed somewhere. Money and passports and disguises, with just enough ice to evaporate.
Cindy Skaggs
#22. They were out of the Army and out of the experimental program that had failed. They were no longer soldiers. No longer whole. They were the walking wounded, each and every man. Mad Dog was the tip of spear. Time could not heal all wounds.
Cindy Skaggs
#23. When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.
Ricky Skaggs
#24. Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
Ricky Skaggs
#26. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#27. Lauren woke wedged against Ryder, her back to his front, his arm wrapped around her belly and one strong thigh between hers. If she was looking for space, she had about a hair's width.
Cindy Skaggs
#28. Worry whispered through his mind like madness. Mad Dog had refused to leave his family, and in the end, it had cost all of them their lives. Ryder swore he'd find a way to leave before anything happened to Lauren.
Cindy Skaggs
#29. When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.
Joey Skaggs
#30. 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
#32. I mean, I could tell that I really had ... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family.
Ricky Skaggs
#33. She'd pay good money for an up-close-and-personal tour of the tattoos that made him look like a badass biker.
Cindy Skaggs
#34. It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Joey Skaggs
#35. If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
Joey Skaggs
#36. Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall.
Cindy Skaggs
#37. It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
Joey Skaggs
#38. When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.
Ricky Skaggs
#39. The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered.
Joey Skaggs
#40. Sex and love went together like bad boys and leather, and with Ryder, she couldn't do one without the other. She could lie to herself and say she just wanted one last night of wild sex, but her heart would surely follow her body.
Cindy Skaggs
#41. But my favorite work is always my next piece.
Joey Skaggs
#42. We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.
Joey Skaggs
#43. Yet this tree, for all that it seemed a patch of darkness past understanding, fascinated me.
Deanna Skaggs
#44. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#45. 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
#46. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#47. I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.
Ricky Skaggs
#48. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#49. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#50. This act would cost them. It was forbidden, in her world and his, but all he wanted was to hear her moan.
Cindy Skaggs
#52. That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
Ricky Skaggs
#53. I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
Ricky Skaggs
#54. My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
Joey Skaggs
#55. Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
Joey Skaggs
#56. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#57. I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
Ricky Skaggs
#58. Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Joey Skaggs
#59. 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
#60. If I known it would be like this, I would have taken you sooner.
Cindy Skaggs
#61. I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.
Ricky Skaggs
#62. He'd never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that.
Cindy Skaggs
#63. What do we believe? Why do we believe it?
Joey Skaggs
#64. Fine has many definitions, and not one of them means everything is okay.
Cindy Skaggs
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I try to keep my heart and myself available for those little, 'God moments,' are what I call them, where someone calls the office and says, 'Would Ricky be interested in doing this?'
Ricky Skaggs
#68. Now what's the idea?" I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone
Eric Skaggs
#69. We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
Ricky Skaggs
#70. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#71. Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him.
Cindy Skaggs
#72. Put your hands on me Destiny. I've dreamed about it long enough.
Cindy Skaggs
#73. 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.
Ricky Skaggs
#74. 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
#75. I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
Ricky Skaggs
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