K'naan Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: somali
  • Birth: February 1, 1978

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A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Mayer Hawthorne

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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

Sun Tzu

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Rod Strickland has been influential. He gives me a lot of advice, good and bad games; he is someone I really look up to a lot.

Trae Young

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All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

Tony Dorsett

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Choose people who lift you up.

Michelle Obama

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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Michael Ledeen

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I'd love to do more 'Nighty Night,' but that's always down to commissions, really. It's weird as well because everyone's moved on. I don't know if I could get all those people back.

Julia Davis

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I had a Screech-from-'Saved by the Bell' kind of vibe in that I hung out with people and had friends while having, like, big, curly hair and being generally a dork.

Josh Gondelman

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Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where 'anything might happen.'

Jonathan Miles

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I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

Douglas Sirk

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To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

Deepika Padukone

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