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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

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

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

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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.

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

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.

K'naan

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.

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.

K'naan

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

K'naan

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

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

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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