Frank Ocean Quotes

1. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”

— Frank Ocean

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2. “Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”

— Frank Ocean

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3. “When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.”

— Frank Ocean

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4. “Never run back to what broke you.”

— Frank Ocean

5. “I’m about being the best.”

— Frank Ocean

6. “Those who are heartless, once cared too much.”

— Frank Ocean

7. “Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.”

— Frank Ocean

8. “Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.”

— Frank Ocean

9. “Smile, it’s easier than explaning why you’re sad.”

— Frank Ocean

10. “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.”

— Frank Ocean

11. “Go for someone who is proud to have you.”

— Frank Ocean

12. “There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

16. “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

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

— Frank Ocean

18. “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

19. “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

20. “My TV ain’t HD, that’s too real.”

— Frank Ocean

21. “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.”

— Frank Ocean

22. “If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion.”

— Frank Ocean

23. “I don’t know anything and neither do you.”

— Frank Ocean

24. “I’ve been thinking about forever.”

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

29. “It’s a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.”

— Frank Ocean

30. “It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.”

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

32. “Each individual’s success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.”

— Frank Ocean

33. “Of course awards matter.”

— Frank Ocean

34. “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

35. “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.”

— Frank Ocean

36. “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

37. “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

38. “I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.”

— Frank Ocean

39. “I’m not a centerfold.”

— Frank Ocean

40. “I play piano every day. I enjoy that.”

— Frank Ocean

41. “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.”

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

43. “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

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

— Frank Ocean

45. “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

46. “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

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

— Frank Ocean

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

— Frank Ocean

49. “Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.”

— Frank Ocean

50. “I don’t intend to stop making music.”

— Frank Ocean