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K'naan Quotes

K'naan

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

Authenticity Center Know Only Place Writing

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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.

K'naan

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

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.

K'naan

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

K'naan

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.

K'naan

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

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

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.

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 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.

K'naan

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