Lebanon Quotes

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.
The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.
The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.
The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs.
There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested.
There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges.
There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.
We all have femininity in us.
When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.
When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses, figures of change and awakening.
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring.
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.
When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.
When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.
When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.
With Soapkills, we were lucky. We started at a time of transition where things were not ready, nothing was available.
Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.
Women are a minority the same way gay people are.
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.
You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.
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