As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with… — Yasmine Hamdan Art Copy Share Image
The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want… — Yasmine Hamdan Arab Copy Share Image
Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started… — Yasmine Hamdan Art Copy Share Image
Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have… — Yasmine Hamdan Blessed Copy Share Image
I had the urge to face my own limitation, and I needed to be bigger. I needed to be more professional and… — Yasmine Hamdan Art Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand. — Yasmine Hamdan Art Copy Share Image
My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children. — Yasmine Hamdan Children Copy Share Image
My family played a part in bringing communism to Lebanon. — Yasmine Hamdan Communism Copy Share Image
I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences. — Yasmine Hamdan Consequences Copy Share Image
Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart. — Yasmine Hamdan Heart Copy Share Image
I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and… — Yasmine Hamdan Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't relate to what is seen as 'Arab culture.' I relate to what I explore myself, what is around me. — Yasmine Hamdan Arab Copy Share Image
My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. — Yasmine Hamdan Brilliant Copy Share Image
Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies. — Yasmine Hamdan Change Copy Share Image
All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character. — Yasmine Hamdan Character Copy Share Image
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. — Yasmine Hamdan Inspiring Copy Share Image
I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile. — Yasmine Hamdan City Copy Share Image
It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as… — Yasmine Hamdan Arab Copy Share Image
I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely… — Yasmine Hamdan Band Copy Share Image
There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts… — Yasmine Hamdan Come Copy Share Image
I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always… — Yasmine Hamdan Always Copy Share Image
A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to… — Yasmine Hamdan Being Copy Share Image
I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on… — Yasmine Hamdan Accomplish Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person. — Yasmine Hamdan Independent person Copy Share Image
