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
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
I hope not to define myself by suffering.
Frank Ocean
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.
Frank Ocean
I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time.
Frank Ocean
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
Frank Ocean
The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
Frank Ocean
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
Frank Ocean
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
You can’t think; you just gotta do things.
Frank Ocean
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.
Frank Ocean
Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
Frank Ocean
As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank Ocean
Of course awards matter.
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.
Frank Ocean
There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
Frank Ocean
I’m about being the best.
Frank Ocean
The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.
Frank Ocean
I was a thug.
Frank Ocean
I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
Frank Ocean
I’m big on what’s in good taste.
Frank Ocean
I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.
Frank Ocean
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
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.
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
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.
Frank Ocean
When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‘I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.’ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
Frank Ocean
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.
Frank Ocean
I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.
Frank Ocean
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
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
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.
Frank Ocean
Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
Frank Ocean
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
Frank Ocean
It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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.
Frank Ocean
In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate… The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.
Frank Ocean
My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
Frank Ocean
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
I don’t fear anybody… at all.
Frank Ocean
I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
Frank Ocean
Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.
Frank Ocean
I can operate in half-a-song format.
Frank Ocean
I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.
Frank Ocean
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
Frank Ocean
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
Frank Ocean
I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
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.
Frank Ocean
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
It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
Frank Ocean
I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!
Frank Ocean