Yasmine Hamdan Quotes

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.
I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating.
I love Khaliji music; it's very inspiring.
I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album 'Ya Nass.' He was writing the script for 'Only Lovers Left Alive.' Jarmusch was always a great inspiration to me, way before meeting him. Working with him was fantastic.
I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.
I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.
I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.
I studied psychology at university.
I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.
I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.
I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.
I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.
I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.
If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.
I'm bored, normally, when I travel.
I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.
I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.
Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum.
It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.
It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.
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