I think I'd like my hair to be perfect. Frankie Cosmos More Quotes by Frankie Cosmos More Quotes From Frankie Cosmos 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 childhoodpianowish Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet? Frankie Cosmos internet 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 writingsongbeautiful 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-yorkwritingpeople 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 hatenew-yorkwinter 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-yorkwritingtrying 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 differentnew-yorkpeople I started going to rock shows at a really young age, and seeing other young people make music definitely influenced me. Frankie Cosmos rocksagepeople My music doesn't sound punk, but I see it as a punk action. Frankie Cosmos punksoundaction 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 new-yorkwritingsong 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 nicenew-yorkbeautiful When I was younger, my view of New York was really wide-eyed and excited. I've lived here all my life. Frankie Cosmos excitednew-yorkviews I feel like the cosmos implies mystery, or infinite secrets. Frankie Cosmos cosmosmysterysecret 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 auntguitarsong 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 stressfulpretentiouspeople The first music-learning thing that I took seriously was piano lessons when I was a kid. I guess that was probably the only time that I was forced to perform music, because I had piano recitals, and my school also had mandatory music classes that had some performing required. Frankie Cosmos seriouslymusictimeschool Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can. Frankie Cosmos choosejustyouposition I don't really understand how to do bureaucratic things - school-system things. Frankie Cosmos reallyhowthingsunderstand I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it. Frankie Cosmos interestednevergoodacting I love going to weddings. I love movie scenes of weddings. Even, like, TV-show weddings - I cry at every wedding. Frankie Cosmos likeweddingcrylove
