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K'naan Quotes

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.

Know Moment Speak Voice World You

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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.

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.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

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

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

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.

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

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I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

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