"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."

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Source : "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

Ricky Skaggs

#Teacher Quotes #Brother Quotes #Listening Quotes

“You have to believe the magic to see it.”

Source : Guillermo Del Toro, Marc Zicree (2013). “Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions”, p.17, Harper Collins
“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”
“The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.”
“The meat. I'd barbecue it before I put it on”
“Thereâ€™s always a stigma attached to the word â€˜ambitionâ€™ and women. Iâ€™ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.”
“Choose life â€¦ I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when youâ€™ve got heroin?”
“There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.”
“I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.”

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