Frankie Cosmos Quotes

• I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

  Frankie Cosmos

  Piano, Childhood, Wish

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

  Frankie Cosmos

  New York, Writing, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train.

  Frankie Cosmos

  New York, Hate, Winter

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Secret, Cosmos, Mystery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.

  Frankie Cosmos

  New York, Writing, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

  Frankie Cosmos

  Internet

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. March 5, 2014.

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• You meet a lot of people in New York who are different than you, and have different stories, so I see everyone as super individual.

  Frankie Cosmos

  New York, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Rocks, People, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Sound, Action, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, New York, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My relationship to New York has changed a lot. I feel lucky to live here. A lot of times you walk through the city and don't notice that you're in a really beautiful neighborhood, or that you're passing a beautiful building. It's nice, as an exercise, to keep aware that you're in a really lucky place.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Beautiful, New York, Nice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life.

  Frankie Cosmos

  New York, Views, Excited

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• The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, Aunt, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are some people I've met and it's stressful just speaking to them, because they're really pretentious and I don't know how to talk to them without being pretentious back.

  Frankie Cosmos

  People, Pretentious, Stressful

  Source: pitchfork.com

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