Frankie Cosmos Quotes

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

I am blessed to perform in the studio and on the concert stage.

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.

You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me.

All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people.

When you start playing as young as me, and you've been in front of audiences your entire life, this is literally what I grew up doing.

Performing a song is intense. When I see people connecting, it makes it all worthwhile.

I will never stop making music.

I didn't have my first band until I was, like, 30.

The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.

At seventeen years old, I found out I could sing, and I got up and sang in a club, and I got a big hand, and I thought, 'I'm gonna continue this.' So that's how it all began.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

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

By the time I was about 15, I was out playing gigs and knew I was going to be a musician.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer. I started playing when I was in third grade, but I wasn't very good at all.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

After every tour, I think about hanging up the touring hat, and after a while of not working, I'm ready to play. I think I enjoy playing music more than I enjoy not playing music.

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.