Yasmine Hamdan Quotes

It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that.
I've always fought any form of censorship.
I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital.
Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.
Music liberated me.
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait.
My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon.
My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.
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.
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