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Some people focus more on son...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

A friend of mine jokes that I...

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

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

I've gotten used to being Fra...

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

Sometimes, I want to talk on ...

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?

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

How we experience memory some...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

I grew up in New Orleans. I h...

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.'

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

Whenever I think about movies...

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 78 quotes

I booked my first studio at l...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

It's hard to articulate how I...

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

My grandfather was smart and ...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

The first four and a half yea...

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 78 quotes

People are just afraid of thi...

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

The Internet made fame wack a...

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

In art, at a certain level, t...

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 78 quotes

I don't ever want to be caugh...

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

In art, at a certain level, t...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

I've written some great thing...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

We were poor. But my mom neve...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

When you write a song like 'F...

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

This has always been my life ...

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.

Frank Ocean 78 quotes

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