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K'naan Quotes

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.

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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

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

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

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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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

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

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

K'naan

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

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.

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

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