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" Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Everything
People
Culture
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" My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. "
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Played
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" Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Time
Bad
Life
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Her
Doing
Boredom
" My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Mother
Three
Children
" I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. "
Yasmine Hamdan
I Am
Singing
Sing
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
My Own
Pursue
Own
" The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Sarcastic
Music
Listen
" I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and be in a more competitive environment because I wanted to grow as an artist. That's why I went to Europe. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Professional
Artist
Environment
" Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Activity
You
Singing
" I've always had a sense that I am doing something very important, something vital. "
Yasmine Hamdan
I Am
Doing
Always
" 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
" Music liberated me. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Music
Me
Liberated
" I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Born
War
Middle
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Values
Positive
Feel
" I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Believe
Separation
Political
" I'm bored, normally, when I travel. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Travel
Bored
Normally
" 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
" 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
" When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Go
Drive
Beirut
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Started
How
Music
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Choose
Me
Words
" I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Myself
Bar
Very
" 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. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Women
Normal
Film
" There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Bridges
Us
Together
" You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Yourself
Start
You
" 'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Women
More
Just
" I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Meet
Interested
Exploring
" Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence. "
Yasmine Hamdan
Spiritual
Process
Presence