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 - sonic goodies.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of storytelling in music and the necessity of creating the right atmosphere to enhance it.
Frank Ocean highlights that the essence of his work lies in the stories he tells through his music. He believes that crafting narratives is just the beginning; the next crucial step is to surround these narratives with the appropriate musical environment that enriches and complements the stories, creating an immersive experience for the listener.
In practice
In a music review discussing the emotional depth of an album, one might reference this quote to emphasize the narrative quality of the songs.
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.
The work is the work. The work is not me.
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the reality I was filming would conform to my narrative propriety. But you can't control it.
Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
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