Frank Ocean Quotes
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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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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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I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.
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I'm about being the best.
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I worked my face off.
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I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
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All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
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It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
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The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
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I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
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I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be.
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The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
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I'm not a centerfold.
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Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?
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Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
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My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
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I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.