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

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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 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 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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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.

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

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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

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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 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.

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