68 Quotes by Yasmine Hamdan

Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies.

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

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.

When I go to Beirut, I don't drive. It's traumatizing to drive there.

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

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.

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.

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.