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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

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Frank Ocean
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: October 28
Blogger
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Long Beach
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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.
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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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As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
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Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.
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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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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.
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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 don't fear anybody... at all.
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You can't think. You just have to do things.
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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.
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Just remember someone loves everything you hate about yourself.
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I might just write a novel next. I don't know!
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I play piano every day. I enjoy that.
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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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When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
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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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Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
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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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