Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

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

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

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

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

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