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Checkout quotes by Yasmine Hamdan on Music

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

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• ‟ I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

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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.

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• ‟ There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

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• ‟ Music liberated me.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

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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.

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