Quotes of the month

You’ve got to find it [a personal style]. And when you find it, you’ve got to work it and take care of it. It’s hard to find. When I step out on stage, I’ll look different and the boys will look different. I am the leader. I am the one who found the way.

I had to tone the guitar [the one he has used since 1966] to make it sound the way I wanted. You play tone into them. You put that sound into the tone that you want. It was really different.

Larry Sparks, quoted in a major article by Tom Netherland in the Nov. 2012 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited - just some of the many good things in the article, which can be read in full here.