Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes
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The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...
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To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.
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I also like Western classical music and jazz.
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I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.
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He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too
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Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.
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When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
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People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.
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When I sing for God, I feel myself in accord with God, and the house of God, Mecca, is right in front of me. And I worship. When I sing for Mohammed, peace be upon him, our prophet, I feel like I am sitting right next to his tomb, Medina, and paying him respect and admitting to myself that I accept his message.
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A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
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He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
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I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
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