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All Quotes by author - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
" A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything. "
Life
Thinks
Day
" 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. "
Future
Home
Age
" 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. "
Change
Music
People
" From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana. "
Been
Along
Had
" I also like Western classical music and jazz. "
Jazz
Classical Music
Also
" I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi. "
I Am
Follow
Am
" 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. "
Song
Powerful
Future
" I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good. "
Try
Other
Music
" I like to experiment with my voice, besides music. "
Music
Besides
Experiment
" 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. "
Opinion
Good
I Am
" 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. "
Family
Hard
Peak
" I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer. "
Studying
Father
Difficult
" 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. "
Father
Education
School
" 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. "
Much
People
Listen
" 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. "
Thought
Because
Two
" 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. "
Famous
Last
Song
" 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. "
Change
Collaboration
Culture
" When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it. "
Dance
Doing
Know
" Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. "
Understand
People
Enjoy
" Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart. "
Got
Sing
Heart
" You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal. "
You
Depths
Got
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