Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotations

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

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

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

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

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

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

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 is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

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

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.

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.

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