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" 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. "
Frank Ocean
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" My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. "
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" How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid. "
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" As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book. "
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" I'm not a centerfold. "
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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. "
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" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "
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" I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "
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" It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me. "
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" You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. "
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" All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists. "
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" I was a thug. "
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" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "
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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. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. "
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" I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories. "
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" Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. "
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" 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. "
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" In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour. "
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" I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. "
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" Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? "
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" This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it. "
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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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" Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio. "
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