Nusrat Ali Khan Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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

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

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

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating,
Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;
This it is, and nothing more. — Edgar Allan Poe

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. — Charles Baudelaire

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I have a cape.
Because I'm motherfucking Batman. — Jay McLean

A person can always be sure of what they don't know. They might not be sure of what they know. — Tom Rob Smith

These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide. — Peter Gabriel

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. — Anaxagoras

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I also like Western classical music and jazz. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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

People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

My name is Mila, and this is my journey.
There are so many places where I could begin the story. I could start in the town where I grew up, in Kryvicy, on the banks of the Servac River, in the district of Miadziel. I could begin when I was eight years old, on the day my mother died, or when I was twelve, and my father fell beneath the wheels of the neighbour's truck. But I think I should begin my story here, in the Mexican desert, so far from my home in Belarus. This is where I lost my innocence. This is where my dreams died. — Tess Gerritsen

When you fully focus your mind,
you make others attracted to you. — Toba Beta

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

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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