Nusrat Best Quotes & Sayings

The vast blue ocean is waiting for her, and this is only the beginning of her story. — Gill Lewis

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

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. — Nusrat Sultana

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony. — Kabir Bedi

Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them. — Johannes Scotus Eriugena

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

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior. — Rudolf Dreikurs

Time is like a barber, it shears you first and then shows you your own face in the mirror. (Marrying Nusrat) — Manjul Bajaj

When Harlem residents Michael McMichael and Anthony Odom drove down 161st Street in a new-looking Range Rover, police immediately profiled the car as being bought with illegal income. But when Stevie Cohen claimed to be 400 percent more efficient than the entire investing world fifteen years running, talked publicly about his billion-bucks-a-year income, and bought a 6,000-square-foot, Zamboni-treated skating rink for his mansion just a few years after opening his own business, nobody blinked until decades had passed and multiple companies had been destroyed. — Matt Taibbi

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

I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people. — Oprah Winfrey

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

To make or not to make a choice is still considered you made a choice as it was choice to choose or not to choose to make a choice. — Auliq Ice

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

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

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

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

People who raise dogs to fight should be shot. Men who steal a little girl's dog to bait a fighting dog should die the slowest, most torturous death possible. Their skin should be separated from their flesh with an air hose through minute slits and then have water from the Salton Sea injected slowly into the cavities while someone rips off strips of duct tape from their balls. But that's just off the top of my head. — Rhys Ford

Oh I'm sorry dear, because she's a spoiled brat and doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. Is that better? — Evelyn Smith

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

I used to be really pretty," I whispered, sharing the secret. "See? I used - "
"There is no 'used' to be." He snatched the frame out of my hand, and my mouth dropped open as he tossed it. The photo whizzed through the air, bouncing off a cushion and landing harmlessly on the couch. "You're really fucking pretty now. — J. Lynn

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

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil. — Augustus Hare

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

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

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression. — Pharrell Williams

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