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K'naan Quotes

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.

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

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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.

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

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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

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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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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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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

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