Nusrat Fateh Quotes & Sayings

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive. — Melissa Etheridge

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

In order to console himself, man created a dream of another world where there is no death, and for that dream he forfeited *this* world, gave it up decidedly to death.
Therefore, the most important and most profound question of the Christian faith must be, How and from where did death arise, and why has it become stronger than life? Why has it become so powerful that the world itself has become a kind of cosmic cemetery, a place where a collection of people condemned to death live either in fear or terror, or in their efforts to forget about death find themselves rushing around one great, big burial plot? — Alexander Schmemann

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money. — Jack Dangermond

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

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

The difference between people and ideas is ... only superficial. — Richard M. Rorty

My own boyfriend didn't think I had the hypothetical balls to have sex in the park or go to a drag ball in the eighteen hundreds. Was I that much of a wimp? — Craig Seymour

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech — T. S. Eliot

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

Violence has never prospered, you can't remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue! — Emile Zola

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

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

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