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

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

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...

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

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