Ricky Skaggs
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"Ricky Lee Skaggs" is an American country music/country and bluegrass music/bluegrass singing/singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, mandocaster and banjo.

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I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

Country's hip; it's cool music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the name and the recognition that we've had for the last 15 years here in the business, I really think that we can make a difference and just let people know that, hey, bluegrass is cool, it's hip, and it's awesome, and if it's done in a great way and a great presentation, I don't know who wouldn't like it.

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.

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.