Frankie Cosmos Quotes

When I was in high school, The Dave Matthews Band was a local band, and that was the first time I was starting to connect with a live band that was something that wasn't on the radio or TV.

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane.

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Music festivals are coming up everywhere in India, and that is the only way to go ahead. People are exposed to a wide variety of music, and the experience of being at a music festival itself is unique. It is an experience unlike any other.

I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'

I would pretty much like to forget the music that happened to me between the ages of eight and 11, so I'm going to say the first album I bought was the special edition of 'Dark Side of the Moon.'

I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.

With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.

With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

It's cool that MTV is making an effort to support bands like us.

I was a bit late on Erykah Badu, but I don't think you can really be late on music. You discover it whenever; music is timeless.

I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music - to new music or old music. It's a great platform where you've got people's ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I'm a musician and I listen to music all the time. If there's something out there where someone would tell me that I should listen to, I would listen to it.

I used to tell my friends, 'Art Blakey is way more gangster than Eazy-E!' I ended up getting my friends into jazz, and all of a sudden there was this little group of kids in the middle of South Central that were all into hard-bop.

I was that kid who made his friends listen to the albums they didn't want to.

The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

I enjoy exploring music so much.

I think festivals have a responsibility to show different genres of music to people.

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.