Ricky Skaggs
Ricky Skaggs
Rickie Lee "Ricky" Skaggs, known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster and banjo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth18 July 1954
CityCordell, KY
CountryUnited States of America
giving excellence lord
We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.
song hate albums
I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
slow-down ready feels
I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
cutting feels left
I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
song fun people
I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
broken next looks
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.
mom country song
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.
teacher brother listening
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.
father mean home
Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive 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.
heart careers mind
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.
heart differences excellent-work
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 hips cool-music
Country's hip; it's cool music.
fun trying stories
I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.
thinking answers may
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.