Top 123 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Ocean - Page 2

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

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

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.

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

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

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

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

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 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 guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

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.

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.

I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

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.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

I can operate in half-a-song format.

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.'

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

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

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

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

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

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.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

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

You can't think. You just have to do things.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

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

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.

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 know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

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've been thinking about forever

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

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

Never run back to what broke you.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.