Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

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

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Men, Thinking, Dies

  "A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything". Rediff On The Net Interview, www.rediff.com. 1997.

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• People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

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  Love Is, People, Easy

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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.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Artist, Soul, Mind

  "The Spirit of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". Interview with Andy Carvin, edwebproject.org. 1993.

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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.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  House, Next, Messages

  "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.

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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.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Voice, Singing, Singers

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

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Dance, People, Dancing

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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...

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Voice, Musical, May

  "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: A Living Legend" by Ahmed Aqeel Ruby, translated by Sajjad Haider Malik, Lahore: Words of Wisdom, 1992.

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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.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Father, Tasks, Singers

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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.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Doctors, Singing, Musician

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• I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Daughter, Mother, Years

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• I also like Western classical music and jazz.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Jazz, Classical Music, Western

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