Cosimo Matassa quotes:

I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.

Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

A lot of good musicians made me look good.

If anybody had a sense of history, it wasn't me, I'll tell you that. I, I was just enjoying life and, and making a living and, and, you know, listening to all this good music. No, there was never in my mind any kind of sense of history, nothing.

I don't like tracking and over dubbing and all that. I love live recording where everybody is playing. I, I'm convinced it's better.

I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.