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K'naan Quotes

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.

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

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

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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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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

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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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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.

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

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