Quotes About Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

#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. I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

Jimmy Carr

#4. Houston, Apollo 11 ... I've got the world in my window.

NASA

#5. It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

H.L. Mencken

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

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#7. I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Maya Rudolph

#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. The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Barry Ritholtz

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

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

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#12. 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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#13. I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

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

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

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#19. 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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#20. In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

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

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

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

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#25. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys?

John Shors