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Top 25 Ricky Skaggs Quotes (2025 Update)

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”

1. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.”

2. “I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.”

6. “I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn’t, we’re both in the wrong place.”

7. “I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn’t, we’re both in the wrong place.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “Country’s hip; it’s cool music.”

9. “Country’s hip; it’s cool music.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “Great music is great music, period.”

10. “Great music is great music, period.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.”

12. “I’m not a goody-two-shoes. I’m just a father with four children.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.”

13. “We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.”

14. “Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.”

16. “I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I hate negative songs; I won’t sing them. It doesn’t matter if it’s sold 2 million more albums.”

17. “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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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It’s almost like country music in a way.”

19. “When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It’s almost like country music in a way.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “That’s kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people’s hearts.”

20. “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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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.”

21. “I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

26. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “I don’t feel like I’ve nearly got to the place where I’m ready to even slow down.”

28. “I don’t feel like I’ve nearly got to the place where I’m ready to even slow down.”

— Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs Quote: “Sometimes a song can take people to a place where a preacher can’t.”

29. “Sometimes a song can take people to a place where a preacher can’t.”

— Ricky Skaggs

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