Frank Ocean Quotes
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I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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You can't think; you just gotta do things.
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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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I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
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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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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 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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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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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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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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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
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I don't intend to stop making music.
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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 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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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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I had writer's block for almost a year.
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I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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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.