Skaggs Quotes & Sayings

Worry whispered through his mind like madness. Mad Dog had refused to leave his family, and in the end, it had cost all of them their lives. Ryder swore he'd find a way to leave before anything happened to Lauren. — Cindy Skaggs

The media's job is to question a premise. — Joey Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

What I have seen in the past 10 years of traveling- performing at a church one day and a casino the next- is that a lot of people in the church want to be entertained, and people in casinos want to be ministered to. That's hard to understand, but I see a hunger in the world that I don't see in the church. — Ricky Skaggs

I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead. — Ricky Skaggs

Sex and love went together like bad boys and leather, and with Ryder, she couldn't do one without the other. She could lie to herself and say she just wanted one last night of wild sex, but her heart would surely follow her body. — Cindy Skaggs

Logan felt raw inside from the look of betrayal she had leveled on him. Who was he to demand honesty when every aspect of his presence in her life, even on the periphery, was a lie? — Cindy Skaggs

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

My art became very public. — Joey Skaggs

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do. — Ricky Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice. — Joey Skaggs

If I known it would be like this, I would have taken you sooner. — Cindy Skaggs

But my favorite work is always my next piece. — Joey Skaggs

No living person could disappear like Sofia. She'd have a go-bag stashed somewhere. Money and passports and disguises, with just enough ice to evaporate. — Cindy Skaggs

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

Hmm." Hell, he'd lost his voice. Maybe his capacity for thought. They were headed where his body had wanted her since the day they met. Blood surged to his groin, leaving his brain defenseless. "What's that?"

She rubbed a finger across his lower lip. "Do I make you nervous?"

She threw off his equilibrium, but he could work with that since he was trained to adapt to new and dangerous situations. He licked his lips, letting his tongue brush the finger she still pressed against him.

"I can handle you."

"Oh, sweetheart, I doubt it. — Cindy Skaggs

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

I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band. — Rick Moranis

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people. — Joey Skaggs

Now what's the idea?" I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone — Eric Skaggs

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. — Joey Skaggs

Out of the military, out of the war, out of the only life they knew. Team Fear took the fall. — Cindy Skaggs

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. — Joey Skaggs

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

He'd never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that. — Cindy Skaggs

Lauren woke wedged against Ryder, her back to his front, his arm wrapped around her belly and one strong thigh between hers. If she was looking for space, she had about a hair's width. — Cindy Skaggs

Honey, you can't call dibs on a human being." Her tone rose high enough to shatter glass. "Like calling something mine makes it so, because if it did, I'd be driving around town in a Porsche instead of Granddaddy's broken down Ford. Ain't nothing here that was yours." Using the tray, she backed him against the office door. "Anything you left behind is at the DAV thrift store. They put a price tag on things, and let me tell you, yours wasn't worth much. — Cindy Skaggs

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

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail. — Ricky Skaggs

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way. — Ricky Skaggs

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts. — Ricky Skaggs

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it. — Joey Skaggs

I've always been a fine artist. — Joey Skaggs

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

She'd pay good money for an up-close-and-personal tour of the tattoos that made him look like a badass biker. — Cindy Skaggs

Great music is great music, period. — Ricky Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

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

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. — Ricky Skaggs

If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story. — Joey Skaggs

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me. — Joey Skaggs

Leather and tattoos, they were his cover, and she wondered what she'd find when she unwrapped him. — Cindy Skaggs

This act would cost them. It was forbidden, in her world and his, but all he wanted was to hear her moan. — Cindy Skaggs

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

Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid. — Kathy Skaggs

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear. — Ricky Skaggs

I mean, I could tell that I really had ... a precious gift. And I'm so glad that I have followed through with it and really used that gift and nurtured it, honed it, made it sharp and tried to use it as a tool now to make music and to make a living for my family. — Ricky Skaggs

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner ... And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul ... Then Chet Atkins-type stuff. — Brad Paisley

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. — Joey Skaggs

Put your hands on me Destiny. I've dreamed about it long enough. — Cindy Skaggs

Yet this tree, for all that it seemed a patch of darkness past understanding, fascinated me. — Deanna Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. — Joey 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. — Ricky Skaggs

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. — Ricky Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life. — Ricky Skaggs

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down. — Ricky Skaggs

No fear. A fitting epitaph, more curse than blessing, the truth of their very existence. — Cindy Skaggs

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. — Joey Skaggs

Fine has many definitions, and not one of them means everything is okay. — Cindy Skaggs

I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?' — Ricky Skaggs

What do we believe? Why do we believe it? — Joey Skaggs

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. — Ricky Skaggs

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?' — Ricky Skaggs

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

A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music. — Chris Stapleton

I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media. — Joey Skaggs

The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted, realigned, and manoeuvered. — Joey Skaggs

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. — Joey Skaggs

I got to sing with Placido Domingo ... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris. — Linda Ronstadt

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. — Ricky Skaggs

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate. — Joey Skaggs

Logan felt it, even if he wanted to deny it. His pupils were dilated and he stared at her like she was chocolate and tomorrow was the first day of Lent. Sure, she might be forbidden, but no one could withstand temptation forever. Not when it was so close. The car roared to life as Logan started it back onto the road. So he thought to ignore the attraction? Good luck. He might be a rule follower, but Sofia wasn't. He didn't stand a chance in hell. — Cindy Skaggs

They were out of the Army and out of the experimental program that had failed. They were no longer soldiers. No longer whole. They were the walking wounded, each and every man. Mad Dog was the tip of spear. Time could not heal all wounds. — Cindy Skaggs

Mick was always the right kind of dirty. Windblown, fresh off his bike, wrapped in tattoo and leather. Muscles all the hell over the place. The man was a serious piece of eye candy. Thinking about him losing the leather warmed the chill that had gripped her since the attack. — Cindy Skaggs

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

I always try to entertain folks with good clean fun and stories from my youth. — Ricky Skaggs