Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan quotes
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“A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.”
-- Nusrat Fateh Ali KhanSource : "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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“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 KhanSource : "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 KhanSource : "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". www.red-lines.co.uk. May 1997.
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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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“People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.”
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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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“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 KhanSource : "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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“When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.”
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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 also like Western classical music and jazz.”
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