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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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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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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.
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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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Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad
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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.
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Go for someone who is proud to have you.
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If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
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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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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.
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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.
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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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I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
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Why see the world / when you got the beach?
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Just remember someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
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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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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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I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.
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My TV ain't HD, that's too real
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