Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

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