Frank Ocean Quotes

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Frank Ocean

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 28, 1987

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Frank Ocean

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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The work is the work. The work is not me.

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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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Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

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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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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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Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.

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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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I don't intend to stop making music.

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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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The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

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The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

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I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

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I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

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How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

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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.

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You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

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