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" All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character. "
Yasmine Hamdan
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" 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. "
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Values
Positive
Feel
" 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. "
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Music
Opening
Internet
" My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. "
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Later
Parents
Brilliant
" 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. "
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Very
Interesting
Culture
" 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. "
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Blessed
Hope
Poetry
" 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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Yourself
Start
You
" 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. "
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My Own
Pursue
Own
" I've always fought any form of censorship. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Fought
Form
Censorship
" Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Other
Artists
Emotional
" When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Language
Poetry
Sound
" I'm bored, normally, when I travel. "
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Travel
Bored
Normally
" When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Things
Own
Perception
" I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Free
Artist
Mission
" My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Played
Family
Communism
" Women are a minority the same way gay people are. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Minority
People
Same
" There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Music
Race
Borders
" I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Whose
Inspired
Language
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Religion
Always
Care
" I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Point
View
Point Of View
" I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Culture
Explore
Me
" My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Mother
Three
Children
" Music liberated me. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Music
Me
Liberated
" I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Meet
Interested
Exploring
" 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. "
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Great
Alive
Meeting
" 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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Her
Doing
Boredom
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Need
Learning
Interesting
" As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song. "
Yasmine Hamdan
You
Yourself
True
" If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Fast
You
Slow
" I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Always
Head
Crisis
" I studied psychology at university. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Studied
University
Psychology