Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan - Page 2

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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Desirable
Arabic
Booming
Listened
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Not Interested
Upbringing
Hierarchies
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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 /
Battle
Dialect
Musicality
Rhythm
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Degrees
Exception
Archaic
Certain Extent
Extent
Societies
No Exception
Struggling
Traditions
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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 /
Boredom
Despair
Music Me Doing
Identities
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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 /
Singers
Arab
Women Always Culture
Dancers
Forefront
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'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 /
Rebellious
Submissive
Activists
Al
Album
Charge
Feature
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Awakening
Feminine
Figures
Sensual
Skillful
Bold
Witnesses
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Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.
Yasmine Hamdan /
English Language
Radiohead
Singers
Baker
James
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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 /
Limitation
Urge
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Arab World
Middle East
Space World Me
Arab
Extremists
More People
Puritans
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Accepted
Instruments
Lebanon
Opening
Change Music World
Arabic
Classical
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A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Censored
Instruments
New Ways
Propose
Arabic
Aside
Composers
Mixed
Mohammed
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Alive
Inspiration
Lovers
Great Always Me
Album
Jim
Meeting
Met
Script
Ya
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Dumped
Lumber
Singers
World Music
Music Reality World
Arabic
Proposition
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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.
Yasmine Hamdan /
Everyday
Purely
Wider
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