Cosimo Matassa quotes

A lot of good musicians made me look good.
-- Cosimo Matassa

#Musician #Looks #Made

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.
-- Cosimo Matassa

#Dubbing #Tracking #Convinced

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.
-- Cosimo Matassa

#People #Thrill #Records

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.
-- Cosimo Matassa

#Enjoy Life #Listening #Mind

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.
-- Cosimo Matassa

#Artist #White #Rocks

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

#People #Goes On #Type

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.