Frankie Cosmos Quotes

I want to make music until I die.

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.

I will never stop making music.

I don't intend to stop making music.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

I been doing music my whole life.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

As long as I can make albums, I will.

I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself.

Once a musician, always a musician.

Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.

I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of the world, through all degradations and humiliations, in order to paint. I have to do this. Until the last drop every vision that exists in my being must be purged; then it will be a pleasure for me to be rid of this damned torture

From an early age I've written songs and played the piano.

If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight... I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight... All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.