Shahin Najafi Quotes

• The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

  Shahin Najafi

  Art, Thinking, World

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

  Shahin Najafi

  Doors, Behind Closed Doors, Closed Doors

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

  Shahin Najafi

  Believe, Play, Borders

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• The most important element of democracy, I believe, is the protection of minorities.

  Shahin Najafi

  Believe, Democracy, Important

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one center. There are many forces that work in parallel: the military, the intelligence service, the Revolutionary Guard, the clergy and the government. They all share a fear of the nation's youth.

  Shahin Najafi

  Military, Government, Iran

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• Mi familia pensaba que si pasaba un tiempo en el ejército, me volvería más razonable, un poco más tranquilo. Pero siempre he sido extremista en lo que hago, como creyente y como no creyente.

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  Military, My Family, Believer

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

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  Breathing, Age, Technique

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

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  Boys, Tears, One Day

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

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  Believe, Want, Dogma

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world.

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  Art, Philosophy, Military

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

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  Giving Up, Iran, Enemy

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• En realidad, no me gusta mucho el hip hop; la música es demasiado tópica, la subcultura, sobre todo el pavoneo machista de los raperos gangsta, no es lo mío. Pero, al mismo tiempo, el rap es un lenguaje musical sencillo, directo y fuerte.

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  Strong, Rap, Simple

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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