Frank Ocean Quotes

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

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

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

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

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

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

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.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

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.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

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

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 was a thug.

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.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

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.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

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

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.

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

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.

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.’

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.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‘No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.’

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.

I had writer’s block for almost a year.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

It’s about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness – sonic goodies.

I worked my face off.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

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

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.