Best quotes by Yasmine Hamdan on World
Checkout quotes by Yasmine Hamdan on World
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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
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‟ I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.
- Yasmine Hamdan
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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
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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
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‟ 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.
- Yasmine Hamdan