Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Ocean

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Frank Ocean.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Christopher Francis Ocean, known professionally as Frank Ocean, is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. His works are noted by music critics for featuring avant-garde styles and introspective, elliptical lyrics. Ocean has won two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist among other accolades, and his two studio albums have been listed on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020).

American - Musician | Born: October 28, 1987

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I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

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

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

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It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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

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I was a thug.

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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.

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I make pop culture.

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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.

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The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm big on what's in good taste.

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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.

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

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The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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I worked my face off.

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

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I don't intend to stop making music.

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I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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

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I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

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

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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.

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Of course awards matter.

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I had writer's block for almost a year.

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

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

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

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

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It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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I'm about being the best.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

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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.

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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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I'm not a centerfold.

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

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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.

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