Frank Ocean Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Writing, Next Steps, Stories

  "Frank Ocean Says Debut Album Will 'Define' Him". www.mtv.com. January 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Frank Ocean

  Moving, Artist, Simple

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Frank Ocean

  People, Focus, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Lying, Thinking, Want

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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

  Frank Ocean

  Writing, Might, Next

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Past, Dukes, Royalty

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Of course awards matter.

  Frank Ocean

  Awards, Matter, Courses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't intend to stop making music.

  Frank Ocean

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Singing, Radio, Firsts

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Mom, Father, New Orleans

  "Frank Ocean: On Channel Orange, Meeting Odd Future, and His Tumblr Letter". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. November 20, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Math, People, Focus

  Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Suffering, Great Work, Yeah

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Song, Stupid, People

  "Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

  Frank Ocean

  Directors, Film, Anonymity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

  Frank Ocean

  Play, Piano, Enjoy

  "Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

  Frank Ocean

  Team, Artist, Winning

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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.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Thinking, Musical

  Frank Ocean: 'I told y'all my album would be the best!'" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2012.

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