I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHANAs 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.
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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.
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Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don’t understand it can enjoy.
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I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.
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I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.
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Yes, you’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart.
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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.
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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.
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I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
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When people start dancing, they dance like they don’t know they are doing it.
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A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
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You’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
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I also like Western classical music and jazz.
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From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
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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.
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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.
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