Frank Ocean Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I worked my face off.”

“The work is the work. The work is not me.”

“Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.”

“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.”

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

“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 don't fear anybody... at all.”

“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'm about being the best.”

“I don't intend to stop making music.”

“My TV ain't HD, that's too real”

“Of course awards matter.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Those who are heartless, once cared too much.”

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

“I play piano every day. I enjoy that.”

“When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.”