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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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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.

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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.

K'naan

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

K'naan

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

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

K'naan

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

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 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

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

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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
Iraq is a small but very proud nation.
Vladimir Putin
Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
O'Shea Jackson Jr
I'm left-handed, and it's not very easy to find reasonably priced, high-quality left-handed guitars. But out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. I've only owned two of them.
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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

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