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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

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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.

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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.

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I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

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I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

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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.

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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

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It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

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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.

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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

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