Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

#1. Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

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#2. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

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#3. A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

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#4. Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

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#5. He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

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#6. When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

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#7. 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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#8. I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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#9. I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

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#10. I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

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#14. 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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#15. In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

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#16. 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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#17. People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

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#18. These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

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#19. On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

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