Frank Ocean Quotes
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I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.
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When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
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We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
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You can't think; you just gotta do things.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
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I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
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As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
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I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
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I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
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A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
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I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
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I had writer's block for almost a year.