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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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All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
Frank Ocean
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I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Frank Ocean -
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
Frank Ocean -
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.
Frank Ocean -
Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.
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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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The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank Ocean
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I'm about being the best.
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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.
Frank Ocean -
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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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
Frank Ocean -
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.
Frank Ocean
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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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The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
Frank Ocean -
I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank Ocean -
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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
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It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
Frank Ocean -
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.
Frank Ocean
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I'm not a centerfold.
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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?
Frank Ocean -
I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
Frank Ocean -
It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
Frank Ocean