Frank Ocean is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and photographer. He is known for his unconventional musical style, his introspective and elliptical songwriting, and his wide vocal range. He rose to fame in the early 2010s as a member of the hip hop collective Odd Future. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Frank Ocean on life, success, music.
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When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
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.
Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
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.
Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.
If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
Once I catch you in one lie, it makes me question everything you said.
The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
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Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. — Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean Short Quotes
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
My TV ain't HD, that's too real
As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
I'm about being the best.
It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
Never run back to what broke you.
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Frank Ocean Quotes About Life
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
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. — 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
Frank Ocean Quotes About Music
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics — Frank Ocean
It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy. — 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'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
I don't intend to stop making music. — Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean Quotes About Feelings
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
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons. — Frank Ocean
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. — Frank Ocean
Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever. — Frank Ocean
Feelings that come back are feelings that never left — Frank Ocean
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Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. — 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
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. — Frank Ocean
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 — 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
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. — Frank Ocean
The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. — Frank Ocean
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
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
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story. — Frank Ocean
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
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. — Frank Ocean
Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad — Frank Ocean
I'm not a centerfold. — 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 don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long. — Frank Ocean
Why see the world / when you got the beach? — Frank Ocean
Go for someone who is proud to have you. — Frank Ocean
I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try. — Frank Ocean
I've been thinking about forever — Frank Ocean
Of course awards matter. — Frank Ocean
I don't fear anybody... at all. — Frank Ocean
Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team. — Frank Ocean
It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you. — Frank Ocean
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. — Frank Ocean
If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion — Frank Ocean
I don't know anything and neither do you. — Frank Ocean
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
You can't think. You just have to do things. — Frank Ocean
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity. — 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
I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love. — Frank Ocean
Life Lessons by Frank Ocean
Frank Ocean's work emphasizes the importance of being true to yourself and embracing your individuality.
His music also speaks to the power of vulnerability, as he often shares his own personal struggles and emotions in his lyrics.
Finally, his work serves as a reminder that it's okay to take risks and explore new directions in life, even if it means leaving your comfort zone.
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