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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

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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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

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

K'naan

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

K'naan

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

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

K'naan

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.

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

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

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

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

K'naan

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Musical success depends on how much you enjoy it and how much you are willing to put in. Luck must follow, too.
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I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
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