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K'naan Quotes

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.

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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.

K'naan

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

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

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

K'naan

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

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

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

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

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

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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
Kurt Cobain
I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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