K'naan quote: "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."

It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's...
BRODY ARMSTRONG

I don't find it uncomfortable that I'm recognized and liked by so many people. If that were ...
SONG HYE-KYO

There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music becaus...
DWEEZIL ZAPPA

All I'm saying is that, you know, whether we're worth a billion, whether we're worth a m...
JON HUNTSMAN, SR.

I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN

If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a scor...
PAIGE CRAIG

I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to cr...
LUCAS HEDGES

If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion...
JASON ISBELL

Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm au...
ADAM PALLY

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know ...
JOHN HURT

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made l...
TYRESE GIBSON

It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, ...
DAVID ARCHULETA

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live the...
NATURI NAUGHTON

I'm not a big, huge star, and so when people see me, it's usually to talk about something I&...
JASON BATEMAN

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for...
BRADLEY COOPER

When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ...
BLAKE SHELTON

We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am ...
KATHI APPELT

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by c...
FRANK BLACK

When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to ...
SALLY HAWKINS

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for...
COCO LEE

I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because...
VANESSA BAYER

You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope ...
DANIEL H. WILSON

I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their ...
HENRY KRAVIS

I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reachi...
ADELAIDE KANE

My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, '...
DANE DEHAAN

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the w...
LADY GAGA

I went to a theater arts school, so I'm interested in many different projects, whether it be fil...
DEREK HOUGH

I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ...
EVA GREEN

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even...
TOM CRUISE

For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and ...
BEYONCE KNOWLES

In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me...
CALVIN HARRIS

I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ...
ASTRO

It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: Y...
JAMES WAN

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of s...
KIT HARINGTON

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I wa...
EMILY VANCAMP

I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scare...
CARLI LLOYD

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I fee...
WANG LEEHOM

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use...
TERRY O'QUINN

I don't care what I look like; it's how people think of me. And I do care how people think o...
MILLIE BOBBY BROWN

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I no...
BRITTANY HOWARD

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Genera...
CHRISTIEN MEINDERTSMA

It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that wo...
NAVAL RAVIKANT

I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want...
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN

I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eatin...
GARRETT CLAYTON

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we ...
DENIS LEARY

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you&#...
DOROTHY STRATTEN

Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any oppor...
JILLIAN HERVEY

Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ...
RICHIE HAVENS

I've been recognized a couple times. I get people staring at me, and I think in their heads they...
ELIZA COUPE

As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd ...
KATEE SACKHOFF

It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elec...
DOUG DUCEY

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don...
MACKENZIE ROSMAN

I know what's best for me, and I want to do things my way. So, now I listen to my inner voice an...
NINA HAGEN

I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to se...
KYLIE JENNER

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. ...
PRINCE

It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wan...
APOLO OHNO

Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it&#...
RIHANNA

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ...
ZACH BRAFF

I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that maste...
BEN HUH

My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if ...
JOE PESCI

Until you love yourself, until you really believe that, you're stopped in your tracks. That'...
CHRISSY METZ

The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI

My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT

I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every...
MIKE POSNER

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, wh...
JAMES CAAN

There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th...
TABATHA COFFEY

There's a fundamental difference between how often men remember to say 'I love you' and ...
BRETT YOUNG

I never liked feeling like the world needed to have labels on everything, whether it's people or...
LINDSEY STIRLING

The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be...
CARNIE WILSON

My studio's always in my house. I want to wake up and be like, 'You know I'm gonna make ...
BENNY BLANCO

It's important to show that there's different ways of doing things. Some people like to be g...
ALESSIA CARA

It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that'...
AIMEE MANN

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way....
BAT FOR LASHES

For some reason I've been labeled that and it's fine, but there are a lot of other artists t...
ALAN JACKSON

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS

It is so important for designers not to run scared, and not to be too worried about what's safe ...
ANNA WINTOUR

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD

It's funny how I use social media because I don't use it to promote my restaurants that much...
TOM COLICCHIO

It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t...
LESLIE NIELSEN

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it'...
LIYA KEBEDE

It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd b...
MARY J. BLIGE

I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Boll...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is...
AVA DUVERNAY

It's always a good feeling to be recognized for something.
JON PARDI

It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to as...
NAYVADIUS CASH

My sister is my little star, and I'm excited for her and proud of her. With her, I'm protect...
GIGI HADID

What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so co...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn...
BURNING SPEAR

It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what peop...
AARON KOBLIN

People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happ...
KASKADE

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always k...
ALDEN EHRENREICH

When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usual...
ANNA KENDRICK

I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who ...
HUNTER HAYES

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's real...
LILY COLLINS

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what...
ADAM WINGARD

I've been very hands-on with everything I've done since I had my children. And it's just...
BRITNEY SPEARS

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because i...
NORAH JONES

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