Quotes by Ricky Skaggs

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Country's hip; it's cool music.
• I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
• 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.
• 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.
• That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.