Frank Ocean Quotes

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

I've always loved music and loved recording.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I like making sounds and putting it together, I'm not just a singer or a producer.

Really, I just sit down, mess around, and play with sounds.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

I get to focus on being a musician sometimes, and I get to focus on being a vocalist sometimes.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte.

My son is a hip-hop producer.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

I can't stand making records.

If you record a song that you love, then you're going to win.

I like to sing, and I like to make records - and that part is fun.