Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.
In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.
It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, 'The Last Temptation of Christ.' He used my song in the background.
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.
I do disagree with the way videos of my songs have been made. 'Afreen Afreen' is a very powerful song; it did not require such a video. The emphasis should be on the song. Again, I have told my recording company, and in the future, they will screen the video only after my approval.
I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.
People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.
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 is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.
I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.
He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.
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...
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.
A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too
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