Nusrat Fateh 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. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'

John Owen

#4. She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

Cassandra Danz

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

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#6. There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

Jodi Picoult

#7. By the way, whenever an Englishman would cry 'All right!' an American cries 'Go ahead!' which is somewhat expressive of the national character of the two countries.

Charles Dickens

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

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#9. I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Michiel Huisman

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

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#11. My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

James Green Somerville

#12. Each and every event in the past is connected to the present by invisible threads.

Momofuku Ando

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

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#14. 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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#15. With each passing minute, I expected her to walk away, and every minute she stayed in my arms felt like a miracle.

Jamie McGuire

#16. I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

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#18. MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

Alexander Shulgin

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

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

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#23. 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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#24. In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

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

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

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

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