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

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Source : "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kricher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.

K'naan

#Sophisticated Quotes

“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.”
“I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.”
“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.”
“Life is good, but Wine is better.”
“nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
“A man who is willing to accept restriction and barriers and is not afraid of them is free. A man who does nothing but fight restrictions and barriers will usually be trapped.”
“Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child. He knows it's important but he doesn't know what to do with it.”
“At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.”

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