Frank Ocean Quotes

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

I recorded my first song when I was 13, 14 years old, and I've been running with it ever since.

When Armaan sang his first song for Vishal Dadlani, he didn't know that they were making Daboo Malik's son sing. He went inside the studio when he was 10-11, sang a scratch and it went on to be part of 'Bhoothnath.' He didn't get the opportunity because he was so and so's kid.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

I want to be a soul singer.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

My first record was made in Termonfeckin, which is a small town on the north-east coast of Ireland. I had been in London, but it didn't click. So, at home, I didn't think about making something, just whether something could be made. There was no grand plan.

I just wanted to go out and make a record that I've always wanted to make since I was a kid.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I would always rather be working on the band. All that other stuff is stuff I really enjoy doing, but I don't consider it... like, I don't want to be a producer. I don't consider that as my life's goal.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

I just always wanted to write my own album and play my own music.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

I always said that someday I'm going to sing on a record.

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.