K'naan Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LovePeopleListeningSongReach

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but it's not enough.

John Patrick Shanley

EnoughMonogamyLikeBulbWorks

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

Jeffrey Deitch

ArtWorldArtistTelevisionNever

I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad for Iraqi civilians. I'd also play for U.S. soldiers at night when they were off duty in the bars. Then I would talk to people, and I would film them and ask them about their life and the conflict.

Michael Franti

LifeMusicWarPeopleConflictYear

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

Steve Aoki

MoneyTravelWeekPhotographerUp

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Sophocles

ManSameAlwaysPleasureTake

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Skitch Henderson

TomorrowYouLongevityGoingJust

I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to live in Brooklyn with my mother's family, who were all Dodger fans. So he was surrounded by Dodger fans. He was a Yankee fan. So his revenge was to make me a Yankee fan.

Rudy Giuliani

FamilyFatherMotherLiveMeFans

I was 25 before I joined the world, in my opinion. I was a very late developer, and everything came late.

Deirdre O'Kane

OpinionWorldLateEverythingBefore

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Delphine de Girardin

BestReligionMostTolerant

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

Chubby Checker

LiveMusicTimeMeSurviveEasy

I remember that the first country I visited was Canada, and then France. After that, I knew that I loved traveling and seeing the world. I feel that I'm so blessed and fortunate to get to visit so many places and see the world.

Brittany Bowe

BlessedWorldLovedFeelRemember

What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.

Susan George

WorkCommunityServiceSmallYou

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