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
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I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.
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I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.
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I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.
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These albums last forever, not just my lifetime but my children's lifetime. So it's important to me to make a good product. And when I put Skaggs Family Records on it, I want it to be the kind of quality that I'm proud of and the kind of quality that people have come to expect from my records.
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There's a great Scripture about counting the cost before you start building the house, ... I think that's a big part of the problem. Where's the bottom end? Well, it fell out.
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Big Mon - The Songs Of Bill Monroe,
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The symphony gets the benefit for it as well. I've never seen a bad review on one of these shows.
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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.
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My dad was a guitar player, and he sang. He knew what he liked about music. He had a great memory, and he could show me things.
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This was sweet to his ears. This was what pulled me away from my toys.
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That's the good thing about what we're doing playing bluegrass. It doesn't matter one way or the other whether country radio plays it or not.
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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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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?'
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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.