Song Quotes by Frankie Cosmos

I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a…

— Frankie Cosmos

Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not…

— Frankie Cosmos

Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

— Frankie Cosmos

There've been times on tour when people have said to us, 'Yeah, your band is really simple.' But it's really not.

— Frankie Cosmos

When I was 16, I really decided that music was something I wanted to do.

— Frankie Cosmos

My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.

— Frankie Cosmos

The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.

— Frankie Cosmos

My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz…

— Frankie Cosmos

I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to…

— Frankie Cosmos

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes…

— Frankie Cosmos

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning…

— Frankie Cosmos

The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and…

— Frankie Cosmos

Those emotions that are really strong, the ones that inspire a song, you can hold onto that. You can let it marinate…

— Frankie Cosmos

Whenever I'm really excited about a song, I want to learn it, and it becomes the first thing I play every time…

— Frankie Cosmos

The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the…

— Frankie Cosmos