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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise. K'naan
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions. K'naan
I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there. K'naan
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice. K'naan
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it. K'naan
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way. K'naan
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be. K'naan
The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. K'naan
The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world. K'naan
Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster – in music, in fashion, in art, too. G-Dragon
The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras. K'naan
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. I.F. Stone
Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen. Vladimir Putin
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. Elwyn Brooks White
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I.F. Stone
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