Frank Ocean Quotes

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

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.

Being singer/songwriter implies versatility and being able to create more than one medium, and R&B artist is a box, simple as that. It is 'that's what you do, that's what you are', and that's a little unfair, to me, because I don't just do that. So I like singer/songwriter because it allows me to move a little bit more freely.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

Of course awards matter.

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

I don't intend to stop making music.

I'm about being the best.

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.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

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.

I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

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

I worked my face off.

Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

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

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

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

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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.

You can't think. You just have to do things.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

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.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

I'm not a centerfold.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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.

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.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.

I was a thug.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

I've been thinking about forever

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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.