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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Pakistani
Musician
Born:
Oct 13
,
1948
Died:
Aug 16
,
1997
Change
Father
He
Like
Music
People
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A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Life
Day
Man
Everything
He
Learns
Learnt
His
Dies
Thinks
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music
Change
People
Try
People Change
Bit
Easier
Tried
Make
Understand
Times
Tastes
Wants
Public
Them
Require
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Love
Language
Thought
Other
Because
Any
Cannot
Depth
Languages
Found
Sufi
Two
You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
You
Heart
Sing
Without
Got
Cannot
Depths
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Father
Our
Had
Along
Instructed
Been
Childhood
Specific
I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Follow
Am
Sufi
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music
Jazz
Classical
Classical Music
Like
Also
Western
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Future
Song
Disagree
Videos
Will
Made
Recording
Approval
Way
Only
Songs
Emphasis
Powerful
Been
Very
Did
Screen
After
Again
Video
Require
Should
Company
I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music
Experiment
Besides
Voice
Like
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
People
Dance
Dancing
Like
Know
Doing
Start
I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Music
Good
Try
Other
Though
Pick
Up
Listen
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Education
Me
School
Father
Giving
Year
Gave
Took
Ensemble
Brother
He
Tenth
Died
Formal
Formal Education
Started
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Song
Christ
Background
Musician
Temptation
Voice
He
Famous
Gabriel
Movie
Used
Who
Peter
Last
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Work
Family
Singing
Excel
He
Reach
Sings
His
Very
Order
Hard
Even
Peak
Necessary
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.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Future
Home
Age
Experience
Met
Out
Performer
New
Ideas
Know
Learns
New Ideas
Lot
Left
Begin
Did
Gabriel
Then
Exposed
Peter
Started
Career
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