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 wouldnt sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad. – 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. – Ricky Skaggs
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
Its part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. Theres so much hurt in this world and… music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. – Ricky Skaggs
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them. – Marco Rubio