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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

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Frank Ocean
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: October 28
Blogger
Composer
Musician
Rapper
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Long Beach
California
Outlive
Depressive
Seasons
Feelings
Art
Thing

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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
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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.
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My TV ain't HD, that's too real
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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
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If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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I don't know anything and neither do you.
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I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
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Those who are heartless, once cared too much.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.
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I don't fear anybody... at all.
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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.
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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.
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Of course awards matter.
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