Ricky Skaggs People Quotations

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.

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.

These albums last forever, not just my lifetime but my children's lifetime. So it's important to me to make a good product. And when I put Skaggs Family Records on it, I want it to be the kind of quality that I'm proud of and the kind of quality that people have come to expect from my records.

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.

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

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.

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