Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Frank Ocean Quotes
ArtCreativityEnjoymentMusic I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
ArtCollaborationCreativityPassionPlayfulness I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
ArtFilmMusic 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.
EducationFamilyOvercoming AdversityPerseverance 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.
AuthenticityGrowthOpen-mindednessSelf-awarenessVersatility 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.
AuthenticityPerspectivePrioritiesSuccess It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
MemoryNon-LinearityPerception 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.
ActionJournalismMusic Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
ExperimentationReflectionSelf-DiscoveryTechnology The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.
AuthenticityCreativityStruggle I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
EditingFilm ArtMusicalityRhythm 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.
Excessive FearFearPerceptionRisk 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.
AmbitionConfidenceExcellenceMasterySelf Belief 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.
ActionGrowthIntentionsProductivity 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.
EmotionEmotional SuppressionVulnerability Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.
CourageHomophobiaIdentityInfluenceRole Models 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.
Content CreationCreativity I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
Business StrategyEvent PlanningMarket AnalysisMusic SalesStreaming Analytics 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.