Frank Ocean Quotes

Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.

Work hard in Silence, let success make the noise.

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

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.

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

Never run back to what broke you.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

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

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

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

Go for someone who is proud to have you.

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

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

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

I've been thinking about forever

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.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

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

Why see the world / when you got the beach?

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

I don't know anything and neither do you.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

My TV ain't HD, that's too real

I'm about being the best.

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

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

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

You can't think. You just have to do things.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics

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

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

I don't fear anybody... at all.

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.

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.

It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

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.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

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.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

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.

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

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